GFI Software, a leading information technology solutions provider for modest as well as medium-sized enterprises, today revealed continuing high levels of Trojan as well as rogue malware circulating during December, amongst information revealing a surge inward activity, boosted past times themed activeness some the Christmas as well as New Year's Day vacation period. The top 10 information is compiled from monthly scans performed past times GFI's award-winning anti-malware solution, VIPRE® Antivirus, as well as its antispyware tool, CounterSpy®, every bit a service of GFI Labs™.
Users were targeted amongst a diversity of infected email, spider web links as well as other delivery mechanisms promising festive information, discount offers, Christmas e-cards as well as gratuitous software. The calendar month also saw the big film loose of the season, Disney’s TRON Legacy, targeted past times a broad array of SEO poisoned links, unwanted installs as well as other malware fakery, spell a spate of fake iTunes emails caught several people off-guard, resulting inward users running afoul of a malicious script that took payoff of a known Java exploit. GFI researchers also uncovered an Amazon receipt generator scam aimed at fooling retailers into honoring fraudulent receipts during the busy vacation shopping season.
December i time once again saw pregnant activeness from Trojan threats, which give-up the ghost along to dominate the overall malware landscape. Seven of the top 10 malware detections were Trojans, amongst those vii accounting for close 35% of all malware detections for the month. In improver to a make of Trojans, Worms also created major problems during December. Most pregnant was Worm.Win32.Downad.Gen (v), appearing at seat out vii inward December's top 10, a detection for the Downadup worm, otherwise known every bit Conficker as well as Kido.
Taking payoff of a vulnerability inward Windows Server service which allows remote code execution when file sharing is enabled, the Worm spreads across networks every bit good every bit removable drives, taking payoff of weak administrator passwords along the way. It ordinarily turns off some scheme services as well as anti-malcode protection, exposing infected systems to additional infection from other malware.
“Following on from the increased themed threat traffic nosotros saw inward Nov some Thanksgiving, Black Fri as well as Cyber Monday, criminals i time once again attempted to accept payoff of Christmas as well as the vacation flavor amongst themed attacks designed to effort users towards infected sites as well as to play tricks them into opening infected electronic mail as well as executables. Themed attacks, along amongst themed SEO poisoning as well as faux application installs, are firmly established every bit a successful agency for malware creators to distribute malcode as well as exercise disruption for organizations as well as families alike,” said Tom Kelchner, communications as well as query analyst for GFI Software.
“December is a challenging calendar month for computing security, amongst many businesses close for a prolonged catamenia as well as consumers at domicile for the holidays. Casual estimator locomote rises as well as vigilance tin drop, creating opportunities for malware infection that would otherwise non hap the balance of the year. The top 10 serves every bit a stark reminder that information technology safety should non hold upward taken for granted at whatever time,” Kelchner added.
The problem of faux software was highlighted past times FraudTool.Win32.FakeVimes!delf (v), seat out nine on this month’s top 10. This is a heuristic detection for files associated amongst the FakeVimes identify unit of measurement of rogue safety products, illustrating the continued growth of faux as well as compromised safety applications every bit a agency to circulate as well as covertly install malware onto PCs.
ThreatNet is GFI Lab’s monitoring scheme that retrieves real-time information from VIPRE installations. Statistics come upward from tens of thousands of machines running VIPRE.
Top 10 detections for December | |||||||||||||||||||
Detection | Type | Percent | |||||||||||||||||
| Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT | Trojan | 21.93 | |||||||||||||||||
| Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.gen | Trojan | 3.79 | |||||||||||||||||
| Trojan.Win32.Generic.pak!cobra | Trojan | 3.14 | |||||||||||||||||
| Trojan.Win32.Generic!SB.0 | Trojan | 2.78 | |||||||||||||||||
| Exploit.PDF-JS.Gen (v) | PDF Exploit | 1.79 | |||||||||||||||||
| INF.Autorun (v) | Trojan | 1.63 | |||||||||||||||||
| Worm.Win32.Downad.Gen (v) | Worm | 1.27 | |||||||||||||||||
| Trojan.ASF.Wimad (v) | Trojan | 0.77 | |||||||||||||||||
| FraudTool.Win32.FakeVimes!delf (v) | Fake App 0.73 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Trojan.Win32.Meredrop | Trojan | 0.72 | |||||||||||||||||
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GFI Labs specializes inward the uncovering as well as analysis of unsafe vulnerabilities (i.e., safety holes, bugs, maligned features or combination of operations) that could hold upward exploited for Internet as well as electronic mail attacks. The query squad actively researches novel malware outbreaks, creating as well as testing novel threat definitions on a constant basis.
About GFI
GFI Software provides spider web as well as postal service security, archiving as well as fax, networking as well as safety software as well as hosted information technology solutions for modest to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) via an extensive global partner community. GFI products are available either every bit on-premise solutions, inward the cloud or every bit a hybrid of both delivery models. With award-winning technology, a competitive pricing strategy, as well as a potent focus on the unique requirements of SMEs, GFI satisfies the information technology needs of organizations on a global scale. The companionship has offices inward the United States, United Kingdom, Austria, Australia, Malta, Hong Kong, Philippines as well as Romania, which together back upward hundreds of thousands of installations worldwide. GFI is a channel-focused companionship amongst thousands of partners throughout the reason as well as is also a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.
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