A new Trojan horse malware gambit appears to be expanding into the healthcare sector, threatening to use an organization’s stored email addresses as a platform to send out seemingly legitimate phishing emails.
The innovative spear phishing emails are distributing Ursnif, a major banking Trojan. But the threat has been detected in multiple healthcare organizations and other industry sectors, says Jonathan Crowe of data security firm Barkly, which has issued an alert on a new attack.