October 2022’s Most Wanted Malware: AgentTesla Knocks Formbook off Top Spot and New Text4Shell Vulnerability Disclosed
This month saw keylogger AgentTesla take first place as the most widespread malware, impacting 7% of organizations worldwide.
- This month saw keylogger AgentTesla take first place as the most widespread malware, impacting 7% of organizations worldwide.
- Also, a new vulnerability, Text4Shell, affecting the Apache Commons Text library, was disclosed.
- October also saw disclosure of a new critical vulnerability, Text4Shell, (CVE-2022-42889).
- Text4shell is reminiscent of the Log4Shell vulnerability, which is still one year on, one of the major threats, ranking at number two in the October list.