Increase in Trojan attack throughout July – Sunbelt Software

A report regarding the top ten widespread malware attacks (during the month of July) was released by Sunbelt Software on 4rth August, 2010. The list was based on the report collected from scans done by the firm on a monthly basis.

According to Sunbelt Software's available data (for July, 2010), two particular malware - Trojan and the Downad/Conficker worm, targeted the users all over the month.

Trojans discovered as Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT were the main discovery having 29.08% among all. This specific Trojan discovery has been on the top of the list during some time: with 27.16% in June, 2010 and 27.79% in May, 2010 of all the discoveries.

As reported by Infosecurity Magazine on 5th August, 2010, Sunbelt Software's manager of malware handling, Francis Montesino stated that Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT is a universal threat which includes many malicious softwares.

She added that quite often, this recognizes the downloaders used with fake security programs, mainly know as scareware.

She also revealed that, after such scareware are downloaded, the fakes portray to scan the computer for malware, and then flash wrong warning that the computer is infected. They try to cheat the user by convincing them to buy useless security softwares which include more malware.

Two other common discoveries that were there in the top ten list were Trojan.Win32.Meredrop with 1.01% and Trojan.Win32.Generic!SB.0 with 0.92%. Trojan.Win32.Meredrop is a global discovery for a large number of trojans which install and run many varieties of malware on a user's computer. They are normally packed and can include many Trojans, backdrops and worms. Trojan.Win32.Generic!SB.0 (0.92%) is a global discovery for password-stealing Trojan horse programs which install keyloggers.

The top ten most widespread malware attacks during July also contain Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.gen with 4.17%, Trojan.Win32.Generic.pak!cobra with 3.29%, INF.Autorun (v) with 2.93%, BehavesLike.Win32.Malware (v) with 1.23%, Worm.Win32.Downad.Gen (v) with 1.05%, Trojan.ASF.Wimad (v) with 0.85% and Trojan.Win32.Malware.a with 0.84%. Trojan.Win32.Malware.a, which was at the bottom of the list, came back to the top ten after a gap of one month, as per the report.

In the meantime, the security researchers stated that the top ten malwares depicts the number when a specific malware infection was discovered. These attacks are categorized as mild to severe based on the technique of installation with other aspects found by Sunbelt Labs. Maximum of these attacks spread via hidden installations.

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