Sunbelt Software, a provider of safeguard software, announced the top 10 most prevalent malware threats for the month of June 2010.
The make minutes of, compiled from monthly scans performed by Sunbelt Software’s anti-malware disruption, VIPRE Antivirus, and its antispyware tool, CounterSpy, is a service of SunbeltLabs.
According to a free, most significant in June was a surge in detections of Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.gen, a tribe of password- stealing Trojan horse programs, which moved up from fifth place in May to second in June as a result.
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Also revealed by Sunbelt Software’s ThreatNet statistics was the re-emerging. see the verb of the high-profile Conficker worm, in the form of variant Downadup. Like the original Conficker strain, Downadup spreads across a network by taking advantage of a vulnerableness in Windows Server service which allows remote code execution when file sharing is enabled. This particular variant of Downadup also spreads from one side removable drives and takes advantage of weak administrator passwords to render off some system services and anti-malcode protection.
Trojan.ASF.Wimad (v) is a VIPRE discovery for a group of Trojanized Windows media files which, when opened through Windows Media Player, redirect the victim’s browser to a film site to download malicious files. They have been used to download a variety of malware. The growth in these detections in the month of June is exactly to increased activity around video downloads associated with the FIFA World Cup, which began on June 11.
Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT – a generic detection for Trojans, continued to dominate the top 10 and accounted in favor of a over a quarter (27.16 percent) of all detections, etc. a fraction on the previous month. It is a detection that includes ~ persons downloaders associated with scareware or rogue security products.
Seven of the top 10 detections found also featured in May, while six of the upper end 10 were Trojan horse programs, highlighting a small decrease in the enumerate of different types of Trojans being detected in volume. However, Trojans are hushed highly active, as illustrated by the growth in Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.gen.
INF.Autorun (v), Trojan.Win32.Generic.pak!hooded snake and BehavesLike.Win32.Malware (v) also recorded significant month-on- month rises in percentage of detections.
“Although Trojans hold out to dominate the top 10, June reveals interesting trends such in the manner that a fresh wave of Conficker-based detections, suggesting that this burdensome piece of malware is on its way back,” said Sunbelt Software investigation center manager Tom Kelchner.
“As we expected, malware related to the allotment and downloading of media files is also on the increase, while highlighted by the appearance of Trojan.ASF.Wimad (v) in the upper end 10 for June, coinciding with the start of the FIFA World Cup. With numerous company of the World Cup matches taking place during work hours while users have no access to a TV, the temptation to make search out online streaming services, be they from trusted or untrusted sources, has been likewise strong for some users. To avoid unnecessary malware risks, it is necessary to keep clear of unknown and unproven sites offering audio and video streaming,” Kelchner related.
The top 10 most prevalent malware threats for the month of June are: 1. Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT 27.16 percent 2. Trojan- Spy.Win32.Zbot.gen 4.68 percent 3. INF.Autorun (v) 4.05 percent 4. Trojan.Win32.Generic.pak!~-de-capello 2.58 percent 5. BehavesLike.Win32.Malware (v) 1.48 percent 6. Packed.Win32.Tdss.q (v) 1.34 percent 7. Trojan.ASF.Wimad (v) 1.13 percent 8. Trojan.Win32.Malware 1.06 percent 9. Trojan.Win32.Agent 1.04 percent 10. Worm.Win32.Downad.Gen (v) 1.02 percent
More Information:
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