Fortinet’s Releases its August 2007 List of Top Ten Malware

The foremost Unified Threat Management (UTM) solution giver - Fortinet - declared its ten leading, most rumored yellow perils for August 2007. The FortiGuard Global Security Research Team of Fortinet is responsible for the information collected from every last FortiGate multi-threat security being manufactured globally.

The ten most popular malwares featuring in Fortinet's August 2007 threat list proves that largest malware is created by the Trojan Dloader.K!tr and that Korea generated majority of it.

Several of the greatest malware menaces of August 2007 comprised the Adware/CashOn Spyware, HTML/Iframe_CID! exploit Exploit, W32/Dloader.K!tr Trojan, and the W32/Netsky.P@mm Mass mailer along with others.

The chart topping malwares of July 2007 are divergent from the top ten rank holding malwares of August this year. The commonest style that FortiGuard group noticed was the deluge of unsolicited e-greeting cards, spurred by the "Storm Worm" (alias W32/Tibs), whose makers apparently resolved to widen the P2P (Peer to Peer) botnet through this familiar ploy. But the Storm Worm's novelty lies in its mode of assault, directly exposing the browser.

Fortinet's August 2007 statement shows that over 89% or the bulk of malware movement was detected in Korea with Dloader.K!tr (alias Small) downloading malware on PCs leading the pack. Dloader.K!tr produced massive surges of activity in Korea, showing that it is the core of the circulation process. The CashOn adware, with an activity growth rate of 80%, downloaded through a toolbar link to a Korean site was also in action with over 750,000 downloads.

Apart from this noteworthy movement detected by the Fortinet squad in August 2007, there was an upsurge of Employment/job sites designed to draw extra clients and eventually earn greater net marketing profits.

Employment Websites have little chances of closure as compared to phishing sites, since there isn't any real violation and they have specific prerequisites, alleged Guillaume Lovet, FortiGuard Global Security Research Team's manager, as per the September 4, 2007 issue of Maktoob Business.

Lovet further said that akin to phishing sites, clients divulging their login and ID don't understand that it could be readily misused. Ideally, clients shouldn't divulge their login details to any cyber service, irrespective of the basis behind it.

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