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This time, one virus takes victory in two categories at once, one family astonishes with 563 descendants, and the most widespread malware in email traffic defends the lead.
1.“Greediest Malware in the Banking Sector”: One of the modifications of Trojan-Spy.Win32.Banker.ezn targeted the customers of 45 banks. Compared with September, that is rather modest, since its predecessor was interested in no fewer than 145 banks.
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“Greediest Malware for Electronic Money Systems”: Backdoor.Win32.Xhaker.c was simultaneously directed against the users of three electronic money systems.
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“Greediest Malware for Key Cards”: Backdoor.Win32.Xhaker.c was not content with electronic money systems, but also showed interest in three key-card systems.
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“Best-Hidden Malware”: Backdoor.Win32.Hupigon.mrv was packed ten times by various compression programmes.
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“Smallest Malware”: Trojan.BAT.Deltreey.a has a size of just 17 bytes.
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“Largest Malware”: This title remains in the hands of the Haradong family. Only the modification changed. Trojan.Win32.Haradong.ct reached a stately size of 244 MB.
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“Most Hostile Malware”: Backdoor.Win32.Rbot.ejs attacks the computer’s protective mechanisms in working memory and the registry.
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“Most Widespread Malware in Email Traffic”: As in the previous month, Email-Worm.Win32.Netsky.q leads this category with 20,11 percent.
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“Most Widespread Family Among Trojans”: The Trojan-Spy.Win32.Banker family produced new malware in no fewer than 563 modifications.
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“Most Widespread Family Among Viruses and Worms”: The undisputed leader in this category remains Email-Worm.Win32.Zhelatin, which was registered with 38 modifications.
