Top Malware Threats in June 2009

Pete Prestipino — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:16:00 GMT

Windows security software provider Sunbelt Software released a list of the most prevalent malware threats for the month of June 2009.

Sunbelt Labs finds a surge in threat detections for the high risk threat Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.gen, a family of password-stealing Trojan programs which is being distributed through SPAM (often as a file purporting to be an airline e-ticket, as a file attachment from "United Parcel of America," and one claiming to be an e-payment notification of an order with Amazon.com. The Trojan injects code from remote sites that harvest confidential data off a user's system including cached passwords, login credentials for web sites such as online banking sites, as well as data in certificates and cookies.

The following are the most prevalent spyware threats for the month of June.

1. Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.gen: 7.19%
2. Trojan.DNSChanger.Gen: 2.66%
3. Trojan-Downloader.Zlob.Media-Codec: 2.63%
4. Trojan.1: 2.62%
5. BehavesLike.Win32.Malware (v): 2.59%
6. Exploit.PDF-JS.Gen (v): 2.19%
7. PersonalAntivirus: 1.52%
8. INF.Autorun (v): 1.45%
9. Trojan-Spy.Win32.Pophot.gen: 1.40%
10. Win32.Cekar.E: 1.40%

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Spyware/Malware Threats for November

Pete Prestipino — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:53:00 GMT

Windows security and management software provider SunBelt Software announced the top ten most prevalent spyware and malware threats for the month of November (2008). The report was compiled from monthly scans performed by Sunbelt's antispyware tool, dubbed CounterSpy, and VIPRE, its anti-malware solution. The results represent the number of times a particular spyware or malware infection was detected during CounterSpy and VIPRE scans that report back to Sunbelt's community of opt-in users.

The top ten most prevalent spyware threats for the month of November are:

1.   Trojan-Downloader.Zlob.Media-Codec 4.27%
2.   Trojan-Downloader.braviax 2.89%
3.   Virtumonde 1.88%
4.   Explorer32.Hijacker 1.62%
5.   Trojan.FakeAlert 1.42%
6.   Rootkit.TDss.Gen 1.25%
7.   Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.gen 1.15%
8.   Antivirus 2009 1.08%
9.   INF.Autorun (v) 1.07%
10.   Trojan-Downloader.Generic 1.04%

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Top Malware Threats in June 2009

Spyware/Malware Threats for November