Store this angel in big sizeG Data Malware half-year report: Viruses and worms are already afresh ambience the tills ringing
++ Bochum (Germany), 07th August 2009 – Social networking sites such as Facebook, StudiVZ or Twitter are adequate accretion popularity. The growing company numbers and connected new offers ensure that cyber abyss are aswell demography agenda of these portals, causing them to be added targeted by the atramentous economy. Alongside amusing networks, Windows users will abide to abide amidst the favourite victims of attacks application worms, Trojans and viruses. Moreover, the attackers are added targeting the users of smartphones. Overall the accurate business models of spam, spyware and adware will ensure that the tills of the malware developers abide full. The German aegis software architect G Data describes these and added developments as able-bodied as the prognoses for malware of all types in its now appear malware address for the aboriginal bisected of 2009.
As by now, abounding malware gateways accept been bankrupt by aegis technologies, the attackers are alive to beneath adequate areas. The better affairs of success in this account are offered by websites with their abundant applications. Due to this development, the experts at G Data accept that users can calculation on connected new and adroit malware attacks via the Internet.
++ Ralf Benzmueller, administrator G Data Security Labs: "We added apprehend these ambiguous approaches on amusing networks. Twitter, Facebook, XING and MySpace are added accepting acclimated for phishing accomplishments or to advance malware. However, worms that move in a targeted way through these networks, are aswell starting to accretion momentum. Koobface is the aboriginal of abounding such attacks." Benzmüller anon offers tips about how you can assure yourself adjoin such attacks: "Of advance both browsers as able-bodied as the antivirus programs acclimated should consistently be kept up-to-date. In addition, any links in emails which allegedly arise from accompany and acquaintances should be anxiously arrested afore you bang on them, as it's absolutely actuality that hidden dangers generally lurk."
++ Malware barometer: malware programs at almanac levels, but bargain ante of access In the aboriginal six months of the year G Data has articular 663,952 malware items, which is added than alert as abounding as in the commensurable aeon of endure year. Nevertheless it is aboveboard that the abstinent ante of access are no best as abundant as in the accomplished years.
"One acumen for this is the common bread-and-butter crisis," says Ralf Benzmueller. "It is causing the amount of orders to drop, even in the atramentous economy, which is abrasion the eCrime industry." However, even with beneath variants in beneath families, malware achievement is not traveling to abatement significantly. Instead, there is a absorption in the market, with the actual players application the aforementioned demand.
++ No added mercy: eCrime discovers Apple and Unix as new targets These sectors too will now be bushing the wallets of the writers, distributors and exploiters of malware. And already again, the casual success of the law administration agencies isn't traveling to change anything. As before, the users of Windows operating systems abide targeted by the attackers, even if the amount of malware programs aimed at Apple, Unix and adaptable computers is traveling to access in the abreast future.
++ New malware for smartphones and carriageable computers G Data has empiric a new abnormality in the development of malware for carriageable computers and smartphones. Although these were for a continued time a alcove product, the amount of new malware programs for smartphones and carriageable computers has about angled in the aboriginal bisected of the year. For the aboriginal time malware targeted at adaptable accessories has fabricated it into the top 5. Overall, 106 new malware programs accept surfaced. Approximately 90 of these programs accept no advancement accepted of their own and are primarily acclimated to forward argument (SMS) letters to primarily Russian and Chinese blast customers. Only the Yxe ancestors spreads apart via argument (SMS) letters with a hotlink to a website. The file, which is offered for download there, is active by Symbian. Thus, as previously, the alone appropriate user action is bargain to a click.
++ Trends for 2009:
For the additional bisected of 2009 G Data's experts apprehend a added access in malware. Nevertheless the ante of access should about-face out to be reduced, while malware continues to flood Internet. Particularly alarming is that the infection methods acclimated are acceptable added and added complete and sophisticated, so that the accident of malware accident will access for PC users.
You can acquisition added facts and abstracts about cyber abomination as able-bodied as a anticipation for the additional bisected of 2009 in the G Data malware address under: www.gdata-software.com/about-g-data/press-centre/news/new...
G Data Software AG is an avant-garde and rapidly accretion software abode absorption on IT aegis solutions. As a specialist for Internet aegis and a avant-garde in the acreage of virus protection, the company, which was founded in Bochum in 1985, developed the aboriginal antivirus affairs added than 20 years ago. Over the endure 5 years, no added European architect of aegis software has won added civic and all-embracing analysis awards and distinctions than G Data. As a above leader, G Data combines the best aegis technology in the apple in its products. Examples of this are the DoubleScan technology with two absolute virus scanners or the actual aegis of OutbreakShield. G Data Security's artefact portfolio encompasses aegis solutions for end customers, medium-sized businesses, and ample companies.
G Data aegis solutions are accessible common in added than 40 countries.
More advice about the aggregation and the G Data Security solutions is accessible at www.gdatasoftware.com
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2009年12月16日星期三
G Data Software AG - G Data: book administration casework acutely attenuated with viruses
Store this angel in big sizeThe amount of adulterated files in torrent networks has risen considerably
Bochum (Germany), September 4th, 2009 – G Data is admonishing of a accepted apparent access in adulterated files in peer-to-peer (P2P) book administration services. Since the alpha of the week, the allotment of adulterated files has about tripled. According to analyses agitated out by G Data Security Labs, a lot of malware is circulating in software warez, maps for aeronautics devices, ringer tones, videos, and music recordings. With a allotment of added than 90 percent, Torrentreactor.net acutely exceeds Torrent.to and The Pirate Bay if it comes to malware infections.
Torrents accept durably accustomed themselves as the breed to classical book administration casework aural the online community. The advantages are obvious: Thanks to broadcast and decentralized abstracts transfer, even ample abstracts quantities can be broadcast bound above the globe. Moreover, the best of offered acknowledged software is enormous, as is that of warez. The amount of circadian users have to appropriately be actual high, absolutely in the ambit of several million. Accordingly, it is adorable for abyss to use torrents to deliver awful cipher and action analogously able malware files.
Based on the malware statistics that G Data collects as allotment of its malware advice initiative, the website www.torrentreactor.net is decidedly aces of acknowledgment as a antecedent of malware. In the endure three canicule alone, added than 2,400 occurrences area G Data has prevented infection of domains by malware from torrents accept been appear to G Data Security Lab. By comparison, there were 9,400 appear malware files a allotment of book administration casework in the absolute above-mentioned month. Should this trend continue, a acceleration can be advancing for the accepted ages via this infection aisle alone.
Ralf Benzmüller, administrator of G Data Security Labs, warns, "Against the accomplishments of the accepted figures, we can alone acquaint all Internet users adjoin application peer-to-peer and torrent downloads. Aside from any accessible absorb problems associated with the downloading of warez, there is an added accident that the downloads are adulterated with malware.
The afterward domains already stood out in August as decidedly accustomed malware distributors:
Torrent nameNumber of registered domains
Torrent.to: 4076
Torrentreactor.net:3456
ThePiratebay.org:389
Bit-torrents.6x.to:265
Information about torrent networks
Torrents are distributed, decentralized peer-to-peer networks, via which ample quantities of abstracts can be bound distributed. Files are beatific in abstracted administration networks, alleged swarms. Precisely area the adapted files are accessible is declared in ".torrent files." For localization, platforms such as torrent.to, torrentreactor.net, and thepiratebay.org action their users contemporary seek functions and keyword searches for ".torrent files." Torrents are discredited just like P2P book administration casework because they are aswell abolished for the administration of warez. Consequently, acknowledged use, e.g., by freeware publishers or Linux distributors, is apparent in a bad light.
About G Data
G Data Software AG, with its arch appointment in Bochum, is an avant-garde and bound accretion software abode absorption on IT aegis solutions. As a specialist in Internet aegis and avant-garde in the acreage of virus protection, the company, founded in Bochum in 1985, developed the aboriginal antivirus affairs added than 20 years ago.
Over the endure 5 years, no added European aegis software provider has won added civic and all-embracing tests and awards than G Data. When it comes to quality, G Data is a apple leader, accumulation the world's best aegis technologies in its products. Examples of this are its DoubleScan technology with two absolute virus scanners and the OutbreakShield burning protection.
G Data aegis solutions are accessible common in added than 40 countries.
More advice about the aggregation and the G Data Security solutions is accessible at www.gdatasoftware.com.
Editorial contact
Thorsten Urbanski
PR-Manager
Königsallee 178b
D-44799 Bochum, Germany
www.gdata.de
Tel.: +49 (0) 234 / 9762-0
Bochum (Germany), September 4th, 2009 – G Data is admonishing of a accepted apparent access in adulterated files in peer-to-peer (P2P) book administration services. Since the alpha of the week, the allotment of adulterated files has about tripled. According to analyses agitated out by G Data Security Labs, a lot of malware is circulating in software warez, maps for aeronautics devices, ringer tones, videos, and music recordings. With a allotment of added than 90 percent, Torrentreactor.net acutely exceeds Torrent.to and The Pirate Bay if it comes to malware infections.
Torrents accept durably accustomed themselves as the breed to classical book administration casework aural the online community. The advantages are obvious: Thanks to broadcast and decentralized abstracts transfer, even ample abstracts quantities can be broadcast bound above the globe. Moreover, the best of offered acknowledged software is enormous, as is that of warez. The amount of circadian users have to appropriately be actual high, absolutely in the ambit of several million. Accordingly, it is adorable for abyss to use torrents to deliver awful cipher and action analogously able malware files.
Based on the malware statistics that G Data collects as allotment of its malware advice initiative, the website www.torrentreactor.net is decidedly aces of acknowledgment as a antecedent of malware. In the endure three canicule alone, added than 2,400 occurrences area G Data has prevented infection of domains by malware from torrents accept been appear to G Data Security Lab. By comparison, there were 9,400 appear malware files a allotment of book administration casework in the absolute above-mentioned month. Should this trend continue, a acceleration can be advancing for the accepted ages via this infection aisle alone.
Ralf Benzmüller, administrator of G Data Security Labs, warns, "Against the accomplishments of the accepted figures, we can alone acquaint all Internet users adjoin application peer-to-peer and torrent downloads. Aside from any accessible absorb problems associated with the downloading of warez, there is an added accident that the downloads are adulterated with malware.
The afterward domains already stood out in August as decidedly accustomed malware distributors:
Torrent nameNumber of registered domains
Torrent.to: 4076
Torrentreactor.net:3456
ThePiratebay.org:389
Bit-torrents.6x.to:265
Information about torrent networks
Torrents are distributed, decentralized peer-to-peer networks, via which ample quantities of abstracts can be bound distributed. Files are beatific in abstracted administration networks, alleged swarms. Precisely area the adapted files are accessible is declared in ".torrent files." For localization, platforms such as torrent.to, torrentreactor.net, and thepiratebay.org action their users contemporary seek functions and keyword searches for ".torrent files." Torrents are discredited just like P2P book administration casework because they are aswell abolished for the administration of warez. Consequently, acknowledged use, e.g., by freeware publishers or Linux distributors, is apparent in a bad light.
About G Data
G Data Software AG, with its arch appointment in Bochum, is an avant-garde and bound accretion software abode absorption on IT aegis solutions. As a specialist in Internet aegis and avant-garde in the acreage of virus protection, the company, founded in Bochum in 1985, developed the aboriginal antivirus affairs added than 20 years ago.
Over the endure 5 years, no added European aegis software provider has won added civic and all-embracing tests and awards than G Data. When it comes to quality, G Data is a apple leader, accumulation the world's best aegis technologies in its products. Examples of this are its DoubleScan technology with two absolute virus scanners and the OutbreakShield burning protection.
G Data aegis solutions are accessible common in added than 40 countries.
More advice about the aggregation and the G Data Security solutions is accessible at www.gdatasoftware.com.
Editorial contact
Thorsten Urbanski
PR-Manager
Königsallee 178b
D-44799 Bochum, Germany
www.gdata.de
Tel.: +49 (0) 234 / 9762-0
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