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| Top ten viruses reported in March 2006 |
| Saturday, April 01, 2006 at 00:17 by Darren Chew |
Sophos has revealed the top ten viruses and hoaxes causing problems for businesses around the world during the month of March 2006.
The report, compiled from Sophos's global network of monitoring stations, reveals that whilst the chart is dominated by long-established threats, a Trojan horse has penetrated the top ten for the second consecutive month. This entry of Clagger-I demonstrates that cyber criminals are continually developing new multi-pronged attacks and mass spamming campaigns to generate illegitimate income.
First seen at the start of March, the Clagger-I Trojan horse was aggressively seeded by its creator using spam technology, in an attempt to infect as many people as possible in the shortest amount of time. Clagger-I was spammed out disguised as an email from PayPal, but a legitimate message from the online payment service, commonly used by eBay users, would never contain an attached executable file.
Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, said,
"All computer users should treat any unsolicited email attachments with extreme caution, or they run the risk of being ripped off. Anyone unfortunate enough to run malicious software could potentially be allowing hackers to gain access to their computer to spy, steal and cause havoc. Users need to savvy-up to reduce the risk of being taken in by greedy, money-grabbing internet criminals."
The two re-entries this month, MyDoom-AJ in fourth position and Mytob-Z at tenth, were both first detected in April 2005. These worm variants have been absent from the top ten for several months, but this resurgence shows their ongoing potential to cause damage.
"Mytob-Z is a particularly tricky worm - not only can it spread like wildfire, but it plants a backdoor Trojan horse," continued Cluley. "Once infection has occurred, the unfortunate user's computer can then be spied upon or used to send spam or launch denial of service attacks. The worm's re-entry into the chart this month is a further indication of cyber criminals employing malware for their ill-gotten gains. Without a consolidated security solution in place, businesses and home users risk fighting a losing battle against financially motivated threats and leave their computers and networks open to attack."
Nyxem-D, the Kama Sutra worm, which uses a variety of pornographic disguises in an attempt to spread and disable security software, is at number three this month. Despite the widespread publicity this worm has received since it was first detected in January 2006, it continues to plague and fool users. However, this worm has failed to topple old-timers Netsky-P and this month's worst offender, Zafi-B.
Sophos's research shows that 0.9% or 1 in 108 emails during March were viral. Sophos have also published their Security Threat Management Report 2005 which is available free of charge.
The top ten malware in March 2006 were as follows:
1 W32/Zafi-B 17.3%
2 W32/Netsky-P 15.3%
3 W32/Nyxem-D 7.9%
4 W32/MyDoom-AJ 4.1%
5 W32/Mytob-EX 3.6%
6 Troj/Clagger-I 3.4%
7 W32/Mytob-BE 3.1%
8 W32/Netsky-D 3.0%
8 W32/Mytob-FO 3.0%
10 W32/Mytob-Z 2.8%
Others 36.5% |
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Credit Card infor was compromised with one exposure to a porno website. No downlod or interaction, but comporomise occured anyway.
You will find there is no interest in Porno, free screensavers, or instant chat.
Credit card use is never secure on the net. Details are sitting in known locations with Windows XP2 and the data bots send it to server bots where it is sorted. TG
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