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Researchers from Kaspersky have spotted a significant growth of the malware used by SilentFade, the gang responsible for $4 million fraud on Facebook in 2019. Just last January 2021, experts from the global cybersecurity company have recorded and analyzed Frank rootkit and found similarities to the campaign. The most number of incidents for the past month were detected in India, Brazil, Indonesia, Italy, Germany, Algeria, Malaysia, Russia, France and Egypt.
10 countries with the most number of detections - January 2021
Last year’s Kaspersky telemetry did not detect SilentFade’s presence in Southeast Asia. A different landscape was monitored back in January when the region witnessed a rapid spread of this malware with a total of 576 incidents. Aside from 221 and 137 detections in Indonesia and Malaysia, the Philippines logged 96 cases, Vietnam with 71, Thailand with 27, and Singapore with 24.
SilentFade malware attacks ramp up in Southeast Asia
SilentFade malware attacks ramp up in Southeast Asia
India topped the list
Yeo Siang Tiong (Kaspersky) Credit: Kaspersky
India, Indonesia and Malaysia were among the top 10 countries globally to have been hit by the greatest number of malware attacks by the SilentFade group last month, according to cyber security vendor Kaspersky.
CSO, Facebook discovered the SilentFade malware family towards the end of 2018, with its origins traced back to 2016.
The SilentFade group initially made use of a combination of a Windows Trojan, browser injections, clever scripting, and a bug in the Facebook platform to deploy its malware.