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Malware outbreak with Trojan horse masquerading as a media file
(08/05/2008)

McAfee Avert Labs has reported the most significant malware outbreak in three years with more than 500,000 detections of a Trojan horse masquerading as a media file. Since Friday May 2nd, more than half a million instances of the Trojan have been detected on consumer PCs running. The malicious MP3 music or MPEG video files have appeared on popular file-sharing services such as Limewire and eDonkey. McAfee rates the threat "medium" risk. No other malware has received that risk rating since ... [more]

Increase in malware volume and sophistication
(18/09/2007)

So far for this year, the IBM Internet Security Systems (ISS) X-ForceŽ research and development team has identified and analysed more than 210,000 new malware samples, already exceeding the total number of malware samples observed over the entirety of 2006. IBM has reported an increase in malware volume and sophistication, the rise of exploit leasing and a lower number of vulnerability disclosures versus the first half of 2006 as part of its security statistics report for the first half of 20... [more]

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