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VIRTUALISATION Trojans on the march, Conficker still stalking
VIRTUALISATION Trojans on the march, Conficker still stalking | Trojans on the march, Conficker still stalking |
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| by Peter Dinham | |
| Sunday, 02 August 2009 | |
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According to BitDefender, worm.Autorun.VHG is the newest e-threat on its top 10 list for July, sitting now at number 10, as a worm which exploits the Autorun bug in Windows, which also made the Conficker/Downadup worm famous. Gaining popularity in the ninth position is Exploit.PDF-JS.Gen, an exploit that BitDefender says uses vulnerability in the way some versions of the Adobe PDF Reader parse embedded javascript. Trojan.JS.PYV comes in at number eight on BitDefender’s top 10 e-threats for July at 1.91 percent of total infections. Also exploiting the Autorun vulnerability in Windows, at seventh position on the top-10 list, is Trojan.Autorun.AET, and an old SWF, Exploit.SWF.Gen, is still in heavy use in the wild, now sitting at sixth place. CONTINUED page 2 |
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