“This has been the trend throughout the year. The reason behind is the fact that both malware types allow cyber-crooks to obtain financial benefit: Trojans through theft of confidential data like banking and e-mail passwords, and adware through companies that pay cyber-crooks to display unsolicited advertising of their products through pop-ups, banners, etc.,” explains Jeremy Matthews, CE of Panda Security SA<\/p>\n
Worms (9%) were the third type of most harmful malware in November, far behind Trojans and adware. Backdoors (4%), spyware (3%), dialers (3%) and bots (2%) were the culprit for the rest of infections.<\/p>\n
“31% of infections have been grouped under the heading ‘others’. This refers to multiple malware types (viruses, hacking tools, PUPs, etc.) which, even though they don’t account for a large percentage of infections separately, they do so when put together. This also proves that today there is a greater variety of malware than ever,” says Matthews.<\/p>\n
The most active malicious codes<\/p>\n
The ranking of malware that most computers have infected is headed by the Downloader.MDW Trojan, designed to download other malicious code onto systems.<\/p>\n
Second place is for Lineage.BZE, created to steal passwords for online games.<\/p>\n
The third most harmful malicious code in November was Brontok.H, a worm that spreads by sending e-mails and copying itself to the computers it infects.<\/p>\n
Fourth and fifth place are taken by the Puce.E and Autorun.DZ worms respectively followed by the VideoAddon adware created to display ads in pop-ups.<\/p>\n
Seventh place is taken by Dropper.UN, whereas the Perlovga.A worm comes eight. The Hupigon.AZG backdoor and the PC-Prot adware occupy the last positions in the ranking.<\/p>\n
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