Security News > 2021 > April > IcedID Banking Trojan Surges: The New Emotet?

The banking trojan known as IcedID appears to be taking the place of the recently disrupted Emotet trojan, according to researchers.

IcedID, bears similarities to Emotet in that it's a modular malware that started life as a banking trojan used to steal financial information.

It's being used as a dropper for other malware, researchers noted - also just like Emotet.

Emotet is often used as a first-stage loader, tasked with retrieving and installing secondary malware payloads, including Qakbot, the Ryuk ransomware and TrickBot.

The volume of circulating IcedID samples led Uptycs researchers to believe that it's a likely candidate to become the new Emotet.

"Based on this increasing trend, we believe that IcedID will emerge as an incarnation of Emotet after its disruption," Vamshi and Mohanta noted.

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