Hackers Impersonate These Apps The Most To Spread Malware
Apart from these, other most impersonated legitimate apps by hackers and other cybercriminals by icons include 7-Zip, TeamViewer, CCleaner, Microsoft Edge, Steam, Zoom, and WhatsApp. “One of the simplest social engineering tricks we’ve seen involves making a malware sample seem a legitimate program,” VirusTotal said in a Tuesday blog post. “The icon of these programs is a critical feature used to convince victims that these programs are legitimate.” In their study of malware, VirusTotal researchers discovered that cybercriminals use numerous approaches to trick unwitting users into downloading and running seemingly harmless executables....