Doctor Web’s annual virus activity review for 2023

Doctor Web’s 2023 review documents a broad and active threat landscape dominated by AutoIt-based loaders, ad-displaying trojans (Trojan.BPlug), large-scale mobile malware on Google Play (hundreds of malicious apps with hundreds of millions of downloads), Android spyware and clipboard-crypocurrency clippers (Trojan.Clipper.231), modular Windows trojans (Trojan.Fruity), continued ransomware encoders (STOP, Mimic, Conti variants) and exploitation of Openfire via CVE-2023-32315 (JSP.BackDoor plugins), alongside widespread phishing and fraud campaigns; the report provides detection statistics, notable incidents, and trends indicating persistent financially motivated crime and evolving mobile and exploit-driven threats into 2024.