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Russia replaces the USA as world's top spammer(02/12/2010)
According to Kaspersky Lab's monthly report on global spam activity, for the first time in recent years, the USA has dropped out of the top ten sources of spam, finishing October in 18th place. Russia has now pushed the USA from pole position in the global spam distribution list. The dramatic reduction in spam traffic originating from the USA was caused by the closure of the Pushdo/Cutwail and Bredolab botnet command centres, both of which made use of networks of zombie computers that were ... [more]
The domination of ransomware threats(27/04/2010)
According to Fortinet's March 2010 Threatscape report, nine of the detections in the malware top ten list resulting in either scareware or ransomware infesting the victim's PC. Fortinet observed the primary drivers behind these threats to be two of the most notorious botnet “loaders”: Bredolab and Pushdo. Another important finding is the aggressive entrance of a new zero-day threat in FortiGuard’s top ten attack list, MS.IE.Userdata.Behavior.Code.Execution, which accounted for 25 percent of ... [more]
Website infection rate triples(02/09/2008)
The Sophos Security Threat Report examines existing and emerging security trends and has identified that criminals are increasingly using creative new techniques in their attempt to make money out of internet users. It is estimated that the total number of unique malware samples in existence now exceeds 11 million, with Sophos currently receiving approximately 20,000 new samples of suspicious software every single day - one every four seconds. The firm's report reveals that most attacks ar... [more]
The return of the three year old worm(04/12/2007)
According to Sophos, the old-timer Traxg worm has leapt to number two in the chart, accounting for nearly 25 percent of all recorded email-borne malware in November, despite first being detected more than three years ago in October 2004. Pushdo once again topped the chart in November, in a month that has seen the malware author continue to release a number of variants, including the latest offering - a naked video of Britney Spears - in an attempt to entice and dupe unwary users. The top... [more]
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