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- http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?do…&print=true
October 23, 2006
"Two resurgent email-borne exploits have been hitting users particularly hard over the last week, and researchers say the uptick could get worse. Stration.DS, a variant of a mass-mailing virus that was first spotted last month, is reproducing at alarming rates, according to researchers. Security vendor Fortinet says it has killed more than 350,000 instances today alone – more than three times as many as it stopped on Friday; email security vendor Postini confirmed that estimate, saying it has slapped the virus down more than 363,000 times in the last 24 hours. Separately, Panda Software says it has spotted several variants of the Haxdoor Trojan – a rootkit exploit that often uses email to steal confidential user information – over the last seven days. Like Stration, Haxdoor is not new, but appears to be re-emerging in a particularly virulent strain…. "It will probably continue to proliferate at its current rate -until- more people update their antivirus software and it has a smaller base of machines to launch from," Lu says. "When most people have their antivirus products upgraded, we'll start to see the numbers go down"… Stration and Haxdoor join Netsky and Mytob as threats that have been attacking email users in wide variants for months at a time. In its monthly threat report issued Friday, Postini* said it blocked more than 4 million instances of Netsky alone in September…"
Spam, Phishing and Virus Attacks Rise to 80 Percent of All Email in September
* http://www.postini.com/news_events/pr/pr102006.php
October 20, 2006
"…At any given moment in September, Postini was tracking 50,000 computers that were exhibiting signs of malicious behavior…"
- http://www.postini.com/stats/
- http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?do…&print=true
October 23, 2006
"Two resurgent email-borne exploits have been hitting users particularly hard over the last week, and researchers say the uptick could get worse. Stration.DS, a variant of a mass-mailing virus that was first spotted last month, is reproducing at alarming rates, according to researchers. Security vendor Fortinet says it has killed more than 350,000 instances today alone – more than three times as many as it stopped on Friday; email security vendor Postini confirmed that estimate, saying it has slapped the virus down more than 363,000 times in the last 24 hours. Separately, Panda Software says it has spotted several variants of the Haxdoor Trojan – a rootkit exploit that often uses email to steal confidential user information – over the last seven days. Like Stration, Haxdoor is not new, but appears to be re-emerging in a particularly virulent strain…. "It will probably continue to proliferate at its current rate -until- more people update their antivirus software and it has a smaller base of machines to launch from," Lu says. "When most people have their antivirus products upgraded, we'll start to see the numbers go down"… Stration and Haxdoor join Netsky and Mytob as threats that have been attacking email users in wide variants for months at a time. In its monthly threat report issued Friday, Postini* said it blocked more than 4 million instances of Netsky alone in September…"
Spam, Phishing and Virus Attacks Rise to 80 Percent of All Email in September
* http://www.postini.com/news_events/pr/pr102006.php
October 20, 2006
"…At any given moment in September, Postini was tracking 50,000 computers that were exhibiting signs of malicious behavior…"
- http://www.postini.com/stats/