New Variant of IcedID Banking Trojan Spreading Wildely

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A new form of the IcedID banking Trojan is spreading rapidly with detection peaking at 100 per day, according to Kaspersky Researchers. 

As of March 2021, most users were attacked with the updated IcedID malware in the following geographical zones: Germany (8.58%), Italy (10.73%), India (11.59%), and the United States (10.73%). 

The new form of the old banking Trojan is a modified downloader in English that contains the malware-infected files within ZIP archives. Cybersecurity researchers were able to detect the new spam campaigns spreading banking Trojans in mid-March of this year.  

Modus operandi

IcedID consists of two parts: a downloader and a main body. The downloader sends user information to the server and makes the information available to the main body. After mapping itself into the memory, the latter maps start infiltrating t…

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