Security News > 2020 > November > Malspam Campaign Milks Election Uncertainty

Threat actors have taken advantage of the ongoing uncertainty around the 2020 U.S. election to unleash a new malspam campaign aimed at spreading the Qbot trojan.

Criminals behind Qbot resurfaced the day after the election with a wave of spam emails that attempt to lure victims with messages claiming to have information about election interference, according to new researchers.

"In this case, we began observing a new spam campaign delivering malicious attachments that exploit doubts about the election process."Qbot, an ever-evolving information-stealing trojan that's been around since 2008, reappeared this year after a hiatus to target customers of U.S. financial institutions with fresh capabilities to help it remain undetected.

Security researchers long expected that election day and its aftermath would be disrupted by cyber threat actors.

The current election 2020 scenario is perfect fodder for the social-engineering schemes oft-used by threat actors to mass distribute malware via malicious e-mails, Segura and Jazi observed.

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