5th of January 2011 11:55 GMT
Panda Security reports that Thailand, China and Taiwan were the countries with the highest percentage of infected computers in 2010.The statistics were compiled from data gathered by the antivirus vendor through its ActiveScan online scanner during the course of last year.All countries listed in the top 20 had over 4...
4th of January 2011 06:39 GMT
According to statistics from Kaspersky Lab, adware programs and Java-based downloaders were the most common threats encountered on the Web during December.There are three separate adware components that made it to Kaspersky's top 20 Internet malware list for last month.The most frequently encountered one was AdW...
3rd of December 2010 12:54 GMT
Exploits and other malicious scripts associated with drive-by download attacks dominated the threat landscape last month and accounted for most entries in Kaspersky Lab’s top 20 malware applications.Drive-by download attacks have multiple components. They usually start with cyber criminals exploiting a Web vuln...
28th of October 2010 13:44 GMT
McAfee warns that fake antivirus applications, collectively known as scareware, are one of the driving forces behind the cybercriminal economy and have grown to account for nearly a quarter of all malware in circulation."Forget ghosts and goblins, what you should really be scared of this Halloween is 'scareware&...
15th of July 2010 05:25 GMT
According to a report from BitDefender, malware which spreads by abusing the Windows AutoRun feature was the most prominent threat on the Internet during the first half of 2010. China and Russia topped the list of countries that host malicious programs.“While the second half of 2009 was undoubtedly dominated by...