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Follow on Google News | More than 5 million new malware strains in Q3 2011 - PandaLabs ReportChina, Taiwan and Turkey had the most infected PCs in the world. UK is one of the least infected countries below the 38% average
By: Panda Security - Feature: How do exploits work? - An overview of security vulnerabilities - The complete PandaLabs Quarterly Report is available from: http://press.pandasecurity.com/ Bracknell, November 3rd, 2011 PandaLabs, Panda Security's antimalware laboratory today published its Quarterly Report for Q3 2011, analysing the IT security events and incidents from July through to September 2011. Despite being the holiday period for many countries in the world, this has not been translated into a decline in the creation of malware. In this quarter 5 million new malware samples have been created and the record of new Trojans has been broken as it the preferred category by cybercriminals to carry out information theft. The Anonymous Group, who starred in the second quarter, has continued making the headlines with the arrest of an Italian cell, theft of data from different web sites and operation PayPal. The PandaLabs report also includes information about cybercrime, cyberwar, social networks, Mac and mobile phones, social networks and a feature discussing exploits. According to Luis Corrons, Technical Director at PandaLabs, “the highlight of this third quarter is the record set in the creation of new Trojan samples. 3 out of every 4 new malware samples created by cybercriminals are Trojans and this is just another proof that they are focused on stealing users information” Quarterly figures During the months of July, August and September the record of new Trojan samples has been broken. Three out of four new samples are Trojan Horses, from 68% in the previous quarter to 76.76% in this period. Since the popularization of cybercrime, Trojans have always been at the top, but never reached this percentage. Second place is for viruses with a 12.08% (down from the previous month more than 4 points). Third place goes to worms falling 11.69% to 6.26% in the last quarter. We should highlight the growth of new adware samples that go from 1.37% in the second quarter to 3.52% in the period, mainly due to the growth of fake antivirus, included in this category. Image available: http://prensa.pandasecurity.com/ The malware samples detected by Panda Security’s online scanner, Panda ActiveScan, gives results similar to those recorded in the 2nd quarter. Trojans, viruses and worms again occupy the top three with 63.22%, 10.11% and 9.74% of infections respectively. Image available: http://prensa.pandasecurity.com/ The Top 10 most prevalent malware specimens account for 49.97% of all infections. However, this can be a bit misleading as many of the entries on the list are generic detections (detected by Collective Intelligence) Image available: http://prensa.pandasecurity.com/ Once again, China leads the infection ranking In the ranking of the Top 20 countries with the most infections, China, once again, tops the ranking according to the Collective Intelligence data with 62.47% infection. Taiwan (50.93%) and Turkey (46.68%) occupy the second and third place respectively, followed by Russia and Poland. PandaLabs observed Sweden is again the country with the lowest detection rate with 23.36%, followed by UK, Switzerland and Germany. It is interesting to note that the majority of lowest infection rate countries are European with the exception of Japan and Australia. Image available: http://prensa.pandasecurity.com/ Image available: http://prensa.pandasecurity.com/ “We must take note of the countries that report after report are at the forefront of the least infected countries, such as Sweden, and see the good practices carried out to apply the same principles. We must learn from the successes and mistakes in order to achieve a safer world”, said Luis Corrons. As always, PandaLabs advises all users to ensure their computers are adequately protected. With this in mind, Panda offers a series of free tools including Panda Cloud Antivirus and Panda ActiveScan. The quarterly report can be downloaded from: http://press.pandasecurity.com/ About PandaLabs Since 1990, PandaLabs, Panda Security’s malware research laboratory, has been working to detect and classify malware in order to protect consumers and companies against new Internet threats. To do so, PandaLabs uses Collective Intelligence, a cloud-based proprietary system that leverages the knowledge gathered from Panda’s user community to automatically detect, analyse and classify the more than 73,000 new malware strains that appear every day. This automated malware classification is complemented through the work of an international team with researchers specialized each in a specific type of malware (viruses, worms, Trojans, spyware and other attacks) to provide global coverage. Get more information about PandaLabs and subscribe to its blog news feed at http://www.pandalabs.com. For more information: Visit our main website http://www.pandasecurity.com/ Neil Martin neil.martin@ Tel. 0844 335 3791 Panda Security (UK) is part of the Panda Security SRL company group. © Panda End
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