Security News > 2023 > April > New QBot Banking Trojan Campaign Hijacks Business Emails to Spread Malware

A new QBot malware campaign is leveraging hijacked business correspondence to trick unsuspecting victims into installing the malware, new findings from Kaspersky reveal.

QBot is a banking trojan that's known to be active since at least 2007.

Distributed via phishing campaigns, the malware has seen constant updates during its lifetime that pack in anti-VM, anti-debugging, and anti-sandbox techniques to evade detection.

"Now the banker is delivered to potential victims through malware already residing on their computers, social engineering, and spam mailings."

The goal is to entice victims into opening malicious links or malicious attachments, in this case, an enclosed PDF file that masquerades as a Microsoft Office 365 or Microsoft Azure alert.

The findings come as Elastic Security Labs unearthed a multi-stage social engineering campaign that employs weaponized Microsoft Word documents to distribute Agent Tesla and XWorm by means of a custom.

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