Thursday, June 04, 2009

BitDefender today released the ten most prevelant threats facing Internet users in the month of May. The list continues to be dominated by Trojans, as it was in April. The simple user-interaction driven pieces of malware occupy six of the top ten spots on the list.

First place on BitDefender’s Top Ten E-Threats in May does not go to a piece malware, but rather to an infection technique - the autorun.inf exploitation code found in threats such as Conficker and Sality. With 9.93 percent of detections, it is the most widespread exploit and the top e-threat of the month.

1 Trojan.AutorunINF.Gen 9.93
2 Trojan.Clicker.CM 9.23
3 Trojan.Wimad.Gen.1 5.34
4 Exploit.SWF.Gen 4.33
5 Win32.Worm.Downadup.Gen 3.12
6 Win32.Sality.OG 2.25
7 Trojan.Exploit.ANPW 2.17
8 Dropped:Trojan.Peed.Gen 1.9
9 Trojan.Autorun.AET 1.87
10 Trojan.JS.PYV 1.73

Continued @ Bit Defender