Monthly Malware Statistics from Kaspersky Lab: December 2009

The first Top Twenty lists malicious programs, adware and potentially unwanted programs that were detected and neutralized when accessed for the first time, i.e. by the on-access scanner.

Position Change in position Name Number of infected computers
1 0 Net-Worm.Win32.Kido.ir 265622
2 0 Net-Worm.Win32.Kido.iq 211101
3 0 Net-Worm.Win32.Kido.ih 145364
4 0 Virus.Win32.Sality.aa 143166
5 0 Worm.Win32.FlyStudio.cu 101743
6 New not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.GamezTar.a 63898
7 -1 not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.Boran.z 61156
8 -1 Trojan-Downloader.Win32.VB.eql 61022
9 -1 Trojan-Downloader.WMA.GetCodec.s 56364
10 New Trojan.Win32.Swizzor.c 54811
11 New Trojan-GameThief.Win32.Magania.cpct 42676
12 -3 Virus.Win32.Virut.ce 45127
13 -3 Virus.Win32.Induc.a 37132
14 0 Trojan-Dropper.Win32.Flystud.yo 33614
15 3 Packed.Win32.Krap.ag 31544
16 -3 Packed.Win32.Black.a 31340
17 0 Worm.Win32.Mabezat.b 31020
18 -2 Packed.Win32.Klone.bj 28814
19 -7 Packed.Win32.Black.d 28560
20 -5 Worm.Win32.AutoRun.dui 28551

Monthly Malware Statistics from Kaspersky Lab: May 2009

Two Top Twenties have been compiled from data generated by the Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) throughout May 2009.
The first Top Twenty is based on data collected by Kaspersky Lab’s version 2009 antivirus product. The ranking is made up of the malicious programs, adware and potentially unwanted programs most frequently detected on users’ computers.
Position Change in position Name
1 0 Net-Worm.Win32.Kido.ih
2 0 Virus.Win32.Sality.aa
3 0 Trojan-Dropper.Win32.Flystud.ko
4 1 Trojan.Win32.Autoit.ci
5 8 Trojan.JS.Agent.xy
6 3 Exploit.HTML.CodeBaseExec
7 -1 Trojan-Downloader.Win32.VB.eql
8 -4 Trojan.Win32.Chifrax.a
9 3 Virus.Win32.Virut.ce
10 1 Virus.Win32.Sality.z
11 -3 Worm.Win32.AutoRun.dui
12 -5 Packed.Win32.Krap.b
13 -3 Packed.Win32.Black.a
14 0 Worm.Win32.Mabezat.b
15 0 Virus.Win32.Alman.b
16 1 Packed.Win32.Klone.bj
17 New P2P-Worm.Win32.Palevo.ddm
18 New Trojan.Win32.Swizzor.a
19 0 Exploit.JS.Agent.agc
20 0 Email-Worm.Win32.Brontok.q

There were no significant changes to this Top Twenty in May.

Doctor Web warns users of spam messages with attached malicious programs

Doctor Web virus analysts have discovered a large-scale mailing of spam messages with attached malicious programs.

Starting June 1 Doctor Web virus analysts have been registering a steadily increasing number of e-mails with attached malware.

In the night between May 31 and June 1 users could get messages informing them that they received an e-card from one of their family members. However, the attached ecard.exe was nothing more than a Trojan detected by Dr.Web anti-viruses as Trojan.DownLoad.37569.

File killer Trojan lurks in the Internet

The Russian anti-virus vendor Doctor Web warns users of a new Trojan that deletes all files and directories on a compromised computer. First cases of machines getting infected by Trojan.KillFiles.904 have been registered in the first days of June 2009.

May 2009 virus activity review from Doctor Web

Doctor Web presents the virus activity review for May 2009. In the past month the share of ransomware among other malicious programs remained the same but virus makers honed their social engineering techniques and created new tools that would make their work easier. May also saw several new rootkits. Spammers were even more eager to advertise their services using new ways to bypass spam-filters.

Ransomware

As development of malicious programs became purely commercial, a new type of virus threats — ransomware — emerged in the Internet.

Studying or hacking? Today's adolescents could be the hackers of the future

According to a survey carried out by Panda Security, more than half of adolescents between 15 and 18 years old use the Internet daily, spending, on average, 18.5 hours a week connected. The survey revealed that some 32% of this online activity is dedicated to studying, while the remaining 68% involves leisure activities, such as playing games online, watching videos, listening to music, chatting, etc.

Domain name registration - a malware spreading vector

Search engines search

Popular search terms are strongly influenced by the hot topics talked about by the general public. During the latest weeks one would presume that search topics like "swine flu" and "H1N1" are among those most searched after. It seems like a safe bet to guess that neither of these were among the top million search topics half a year ago.

Cyber-criminals create specialized search engines leading users to malicious websites

PandaLabs, Panda Security’ malware detection and analysis laboratory, has observed how cyber-criminals are starting to use their own search engines to lead users to malicious pages, often created for distributing malware. This new trend underlines how cyber-crime is becoming increasingly professional.

Trojans Continue to Dominate BitDefender’s Top Ten E-Threats in April

BitDefender today released the ten most prevelant threats facing Internet users in the month of April. The top is still dominated by Trojans, as it was in March. These threats rely solely on tricking users to spread the e-threat, and they occupy seven of the ten positions this month.

Only a couple of worms, exploits and viruses break up the "trojan parade."

Do birds speak the truth?

Introduction

The social network Twitter has become extremely popular in quite a short time, with several million members. In brief Twitter is a community where the members are able to post information (about whatever) of up to 140 characters. Members of this community are able to follow other members' postings, and may thus be updated about friends' and others' activities and interests.

One should however, as always be cautious and observe common sense.
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