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Greediest Trojan targeting banks, most common virus/worm family, most common Trojan family, most common malicious program in email traffic and others.

Over the last week there has been an enormous upsurge in reports of so called “MonaRonaDona” malware.

Interestingly, of the four families of malicious code which are currently causing epidemics, only Diehard and Bagle are present in the rankings. Their two competitors, Zhelatin and Warezov, appear to be taking something of a break.

It’s been some time since we’ve seen an adware program at the top of our online rankings.

This annual report provides an overview the evolution of malware, adware and potentially malicious programs in 2007, and compares this data to that of 2006.

The year 2007 can be dubbed “the year of online-world fraud” or perhaps “the year of exploiting poor gamers”.

Over the last couple of days we’ve seen spam being sent out which contains a link in it claiming to be a Paris Hilton video.

For the second month in a row, representatives of the new Trojan-Downloader family Diehard have been creating a considerable stir in mail traffic.

There’s no such thing as New Year in the virus world. Statistics for January show that the malware and potential malicious programs in circulation are remarkably similar to those in last month’s rankings.

Greediest Trojan targeting banks, most common virus/worm family, most common Trojan family, most common malicious program in email traffic and others.

In place of the traditional and somewhat dull domination of the rankings by old email worms, in December we encountered the explosive propagation of a new generation of programs.

A look at the December statistics makes it possible for us to draw some preliminary conclusions about the malware landscape in 2007.

Yesterday I was taking a look at a new backdoor with MSN-Worm functionality, Backdoor.Win32.VB.bsf. This backdoor is specifically designed to steal (bank related) passwords and to spy on the user

Although the malicious programs leading November’s 2007 Email Top Twenty have changed, the data once again highlights the absence of any serious epidemics in mail traffic

In November, our online statistics returned to their usual state of flux: there are 11 new malicious programs in the Top Twenty, a new leader and it’s very unclear what the future may hold