List of most mimicked legitimate apps released by Virus Total
8 August 2022
Cyber security researchers from Virus Total recently discovered that threat actors are masking legitimate applications with fake versions. The following are some of the applications mimicked and abused Skype, Adobe Reader, VLC player, 7Zip and Team Viewer to name a few.
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