Throughout the month of October, ESET customers have encountered the Conficker worm the most. This fact is underscored by the results of ESET statistical reporting system ThreatSense.Net®.
Win32/Conficker with an 8.85% share of all detected threats remains the topmost threat. The order of other threats has not registered any significant shifts throughout October, with the top 5 remaining unchanged. Placing second, INF/Autorun denoting a mixture of trojans exploiting the autorun.inf function of the Windows OS placed second with 7.73%. Third place for the month of October goes to a family of trojans Win32/PSW.OnLineGames (7,29%) known for stealing data and assets of online gamers – specializing on games such as World of Warcraft. The No. 4 spot is taken by a family of trojans known as Win32/Agent specializing in stealing computer data and No. 5 goes to INF/Conficker denoting variants of Conficker exploiting the Windows OS autorun.inf function.
Global threats according to ESET ThreatSense.Net® (October 2009)
EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST, AFRICA (EMEA)
In the month of October, Conficker has accounted for the highest share of infiltrations in the Ukraine (28,08%), Russia (18,69%), Republic of South Africa (15,21%), Bulgaria (15,02%), Romania (14,32) and Serbia (9,46%). Global No. 2 - INF/Autorun has registered toward the top of the list in the United Arab Emirates (10%). No. 3 globally goes to Win32/PSW.OnLineGames that was dominant in Slovakia (7,02%), Poland (14,07%), Spain (9,61%), France (9,49%) and Israel (3,38%).
Other countries felt the onslaught of variants of Win32/Kryptik that denotes a group of malware such as rogue applications, including rogue antivirus programs. From a global perspective, Kryptic remained just under the TOP10, reaching high share of occurrence in Europe, especially in Austria (26,46%), Germany (17,39%), Czech Republic (15,73%), Sweden (13,55%), Norway (11,28%) and Great Britain (12,92%).
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