Threats Increase With Updated “Swiss Army Malware”

There seems to be a slow and steady decline in the production of specialized malware. Alongside, there is a growing trend across cyber-space today for variants to be able to perform a whole host of functions and feature as many features as possible, according to recent studies released. 

It was found that “Swiss Army knife malware” was on the rise due to an analysis of more than 550,000 real-world samples by Picus Security. These strains are multipurpose and capable of performing a variety of actions. 

Among the malware analyzed for the report, a third carries more than 20 individual tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP), according to the report, which suggests that malware in much larger numbers is involved in cyber threats. There are quite a few attacks that leverage more than ten tactics. One in ten attacks has as many as 30 tactics. Most commonly, the use of legitimate software and the movement of files in a lateral way are among the most common features of these attacks. 

Almost a third of malware samples have been observed to contain executables and script interpreters. According to MITRE’s ATT&CK adversary behavior framework, these interpreters are the most prevalent ATT&CK techniques. &nbs

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