The Qakbot worm, which targets consumers’ financial website credentials, appears to be growing more sophisticated and virulent. The long-running worm appeared in 2009, but in the past month there’s been a spike in the overall number of infections seen at any given time. The worm targets online bank account holders and can record keystrokes; digital certificates; and website, email, and FTP passwords. It can also do much more extensive damage if it infects a PC that stores a large amount of other people’s personal information.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/qakbot-malware-infections-spike