Sep 01 2010

Monthly Malware Statistics: August 2010

In August, there was a significant increase in exploits of the CVE-2010-2568 vulnerability.

Sep 01 2010

Spam report: July 2010

The amount of spam detected in mail traffic averaged 82.9% in July 2010. A low of 77.9% was recorded on 20 July with a peak value of 90.1% being reached on 25 and 31 July.

Aug 23 2010

Information Security Threats in the Second Quarter of 2010

The majority of the biggest malware incidents that took place in the second quarter of 2010 were linked in some way to botnets. New bots were created and existing bots further developed, such as TDSS, an article on which has been published by our virus analysts, and Zbot (ZeuS), which we discuss...

Aug 05 2010

TDSS

The TDSS rootkit first appeared in 2008. Since then, it has become far more widespread than the notorious rootkit Rustock. The rootkit’s malicious payload and the difficulties it presents for analysis are effectively similar to those of the bootkit.

Jul 30 2010

Monthly Malware Statistics July 2010

The first Top Twenty list below shows malware, adware and potentially unwanted programs that were detected and neutralized by the on-access scanner when they were accessed for the first time

Jul 27 2010

Spam in the Second Quarter of 2010

The percentage of spam in mail traffic during the second quarter of 2010 came to 84.4%, a reduction of 0.8 percentage points on the previous quarter. The highest levels of spam were recorded on 18 April and 9 May at 89.8%, while the low for the quarter was 79.2% on 20 April

Jul 21 2010

Spam report: June 2010

The amount of spam in email traffic decreased by 0.3 percentage points compared to May’s figure and averaged 84.8%

Jul 21 2010

Mass Defacements: the tools and tricks

Websites getting defaced, servers getting turned into nodes in botnets, shell accounts and backdoors being sold on the black market - this is what’s happening on the Internet every day

Jul 15 2010

Black DDoS

Cybercriminals use a variety of bots to conduct DDoS attacks on Internet servers. One of the most popular tools is called Black Energy 2. This malicious program is the subject of this article.