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VIRTUALISATION Clever infection techniques top e-threats list
VIRTUALISATION Clever infection techniques top e-threats list | Clever infection techniques top e-threats list |
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| by Peter Dinham | |
| Thursday, 04 June 2009 | |
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“Topping out at 9.93% of detections, it is the most widespread exploit and the top e-threat of the month,” says BitDefender. According to BitDefender, the top ten e-threats detected in the month of May were, almost all Trojans, with “simple, user-interaction driven pieces of malware occupying no less than six of the ten positions.” And, in second place, BitDefender lists what it calls "the positively ancient Trojan.Clicker.CM”, a popup-serving program with a “whopping 9.23% of detections.” BitDefender also reports that Conficker is “on the up again for some reason,” claiming the fifth position in May with 3.12% of detected infections, and, it says, a lowly bit of SWF exploit code, heavily used in malicious and compromised websites the world over, can be found in fourth, at 4.33%. A polymorphic file infector claimed sixth place in May and, says BitDefender, “if that sounds dangerous, that’s because it is: the virus infects executable files as well as network shares, re-writing itself in the process to avoid signature-based scanners.” CONTINUED page 2 |
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