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“Greediest pest in the banking sector“: One of the modifications of Trojan-Spy.Win32.Small.dg tracked the customers of a total of 134 banks.
„Greediest pest for electronic money systems“: The trojan named Trojan-Spy.Win32.Agent.baa attacked three electronic money systems at once.
„Greediest pest for Key Cards“: In September, Trojan-Spy.Win32.Banbra.df robbed the customers of three key-card systems. For the third month in a row, a trojan with Brazilian roots prevailed in this category.
„Best-hidden pest“: The author of Trojan.Win32.Delf.or packed his work no less than ten times with various compression programs, thus leaving the competitors behind.
„Smallest pest“: With a size of only 19 bytes, Trojan.BAT.KillFiles.gc wins this category in September. Despite its small size, it was not harmless and deleted user data from the hard drive.
„Largest pest“: The undisputed winner, with a size of 243MB, was one of the modifications of Trojan.Win32.Haradong.bj.
„Most hostile pest“: With the beginning of autumn, Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Agent.bxx became the greatest threat to protective facilities on PCs. It interrupts the execution of active blocks and then deletes them from the hard drive.
„Most widespread pest in e-mail traffic“: The e-mail worm Worm.Win32.NetSky.q remains the undisputed leader with an increase of four percent compared with the previous month. Its share of malicious e-mail traffic in the first month of autumn was 25.22 percent.
„Most widespread family among trojans“: The leader here was the Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Agent family, of which an impressive 663 variants were in circulation.
„Most widespread family among viruses and worms“: The Zhelatin worm family was able to hold this position. In September, 55 variants of this worm were discovered by Kaspersky Lab.
Further links:
- Kaspersky
