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Saturday, 09 June 2007 |
This week highlighted new was published on June 4 http://www.pandasoftware.com/about/subscriptions/Oxygen3/20070405.htm):
Trojans and adware were responsible for 49.8 percent of all infections
detected by Panda ActiveScan in May. Specifically, Trojans were the
culprits of 26.14 percent of attacks, while adware (a type of malware
designed to display advertisements) reached 23.7 percent.
Last
month also witnessed a slight rise in the number of attacks involving
bots (3.37%) and spyware (3.03%), both of which are also used for
financial gain by cyber-crooks. Similarly, backdoor Trojans accounted
for 5.36 percent of all infections.
“The creators of malicious code are now almost entirely focused on spreading types of malware that can bring financial returns and as such we are seeing less of the traditional viruses or worms that were behind previous widescale epidemics,” confirms Luis Corrons, Technical Director of PandaLabs.
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