ESET Lists the Dominant E-Threats of 2010

According to its "End of 2010 Report' that ESET the Slovakian security company released recently, the firm has detected Conficker, INF/Autorun and Win32/PSLOnlineGames as the three most prevalent malicious e-threats that respectively contributed a share of 8.45%, 6.76% and 3.59% to the total malware during 2010.

Moreover, ESET discloses that over 3 consecutive months, the malicious program Bflient.k has remained within the company's Top Ten Threats List that ESET prepares every month.

Elaborate the security researchers that Bflient, which's traded among cyber-criminals, is a toolkit with which botnets can be built and preserved. Moreover, the toolkit is customized for each client so that a distinction is maintained from customer to customer.

Notes the report that after a purchase takes place, the client is equipped with instructing his botnet for carrying out the typical operations viz. executing a DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) assault, contaminating other PCs, as well as downloading and planting suspicious programs whenever wished. Infosecurity-magazine.com reported this on February 1, 2011.

Furthermore, there's a special risk from Facebook to users visiting the website in that they could contract malware as well as other assaults based on social engineering. Facebook, in its attempt at eliminating the symptom instead of the malaise, may keep on offering the privacy-infiltration factor which typically associates social media, since users want just that, in order that they (users) themselves have the onus of making sure that their databases aren't given out in manners disagreeable to them. A few websites like Bebo have in fact switched to the "deny some things" option from "deny nothing" despite the fact that sharing the maximum of user database is basic so far as the website's commercial model is concerned.

Additionally, aside the aforementioned issues, ESET in its report discusses the Wikileaks story as well which was dominant between July and December 2010. First, several attempts were made, though unsuccessful, for closing stable door via disabling Wikileaks servers first and subsequently with prominent online players' coordinated corporate exertion for stopping funding and obstructing any more dissemination of the hacked database. Indeed, consequent of the Wikileaks episode, many DDoS and spam attacks took place worldwide.

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