India and Russia are the biggest producers of viruses

(03/09/2010)

According to analysis of internet threats by Network Box, India has overtaken the US as the single biggest producer of viruses. India is now responsible for 13.74 per cent of the world’s viruses, up from 9.5 per cent in July. Russia is the next in line, producing just over 11 per cent of viruses - a jump from last month’s 4.01 per cent. The US accounts for just over eight per cent, a significant decrease from 14.65 per cent last month.

Virus levels from the UK have dropped to 2.5 per cent; down from five per cent last month. The UK is now the seventh-largest threat producing country in the world (down from fourth last month).

The highest number of firewall blocks come from the US (18.3 per cent) and Korea (13 per cent). Simon Heron, internet security analyst for Network Box, says: “It is interesting to see that UDP:137 (NetBIOS’ name service) was the second most attacked port. It is obviously worth users and businesses checking their firewall rules as these figures indicate that there must still be systems out there with this port open to the internet. Also, it would appear that web proxies are also worth probing as TCP:8080 was third in the list, which suggests that hackers see this as another backdoor.”

Heron continues: “The country sources of these internet threats shifts each month, which shows how quickly internet criminals can move their operations round the world and launch attacks. Businesses need to be vigilant and ensure they are not opening up the back door to a hacker when they use new applications or technologies. From this month’s statistics, it would appear that proxies are seen as vulnerable.”

Top Sources of Viruses
Country Daily Average %
India 13.74380
Russia 11.05539
US 8.01660
Korea 6.57105
Ukraine 6.03436
Romania 2.60329
UK 2.49997
Taiwan 2.39421
Brazil 2.18961
Australia 1.54209

Top Sources of Spam
Country Daily Average %
US 12.20073
India 7.68707
Brazil 5.40389
UK 5.01344
Vietnam 4.20971
Russia 3.50869
China 2.99988
Germany 2.82460
Korea 2.46865
France 2.20162

Top Viruses
Threat Name Daily Average %
nbh-bgtrack 10.56275
packed.win32.katusha.o 5.67278
trojan-downloader.win32.agent.eesv 4.64686
backdoor.win32.bredolab.gni 3.49167
nbh-multext 3.22248
spam.porn.disguise_porn 3.16561
nbh-bbadhdr 3.0365
spam.porn.porn_nb_hot_nasty 2.77738
trojan-spy.win32.zbot.alyp 2.23727

Top Trojans
Threat Name Daily Average %
trojan-downloader.win32.agent.eesv 0.10808
trojan-downloader.win32.fraudload.xexa 0.04118
trojan-dropper.win32.hdrop.jo 0.04100
trojan-spy.win32.zbot.alyp 0.02341
trojan-dropper.win32.zbot.cn 0.02116
trojan-spy.win32.zbot.amvf 0.01464
trojan-spy.win32.zbot.ammv 0.00976
trojan-spy.win32.zbot.anfz 0.00775
trojan.win32.agent2.cuyv 0.00537
trojan.win32.agent.evoy 0.00325

Top Intrusions
Threat Name Daily Average %
NETBIOS 37.10737
BOGON 6.70014
HTTP-S-WEBDAV 0.46635
PINGFLOOD 0.30035

Top Firewall blocks by Port
Protocol / Port Daily Average %
TCP:80 15.68085
UDP:137 9.70943
TCP:8080 5.89193
UDP:123 4.55660
UDP:53 3.62956
TCP:443 3.20130
UDP:138 2.61414
UDP:161 2.27529
ICMP:0 1.79926
TCP:25 1.78652

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