Panda Software's Weekly Report on Viruses and Intruders
The Sdbot and Gaobot families are responsible for most botnets worldwide. These two families were responsible for 80 percent of detections related to bots during the first quarter of 2007.
Sdbot and Gaobot make up most botnets
As much as 57 percent of the malware in circulation reports received by PandaLabs in the last few hours have concerned Cimuz.EL. This malicious code reaches computers in stages. Firstly, a computer is infected with a part of the code that operates as a do...
PandaLabs warns of dangerous trojan Cimuz.EL
Some 87.5 percent of all email scanned by TrustLayer Mail in March was spam. This information has been compiled from the networks of clients who have contracted TrustLayer Mail, the managed security service from Panda Software.
87.5% of email scanned in March was spam
The dangerous Cimuz.EL Trojan is one of the malicious codes covered in this week's PandaLabs report together with another Trojan, Gogo.A, and two worms: UsbStorm.A and Nurech.Z. Also, this week Microsoft has published five new security patches.
Weekly Report on Viruses and Intruders
PandaLabs has detected an increase in the use of spam combined with social engineering to spread malware. Several examples have appeared over the last few days.
Spam, social engineering and malware
Pandalabs has discovered ImageAccesActiveXObject, a new example of adware that poses as an ActiveX control allowing users to view erotic pictures.
Erotic pics, hook for adware
PandaLabs has detected Rinbot.Q, a worm that spreads by exploiting the vulnerability in the Windows DNS Server. This recently discovered vulnerability has yet to be patched by Microsoft.