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AVG reports malware trends targeting Macs and businesses |
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AVG Technologies has released its Community Powered Threat Report – Q2 2011, providing fresh insight and analysis on the trends in the global threat landscape.  The report speaks of ‘trusted malware’ growing, with a 300% increase in 2011 as compared to 2010, in the number of stolen digital certificates used to sign malware before distribution by hackers. The practice of trusting signed files is rapidly losing its strength, AVG said. Also, the rising popularity of Macs have made them the latest victims of cyber crime, with the attractiveness of the platform figuring on the cyber criminals' radar, who are leveraging tried and tested social engineering techniques to attack Mac OS users. For mobile malware, cyber crooks are monetizing via premium SMS and fake apps by spamming users to download apps or simply posting them on download stores or markets. AVG also found that 11.3% of malware are using external hardware devices such as flash drives as a distribution method, while Blackhole remains the most prevalent exploit toolkit in the wild, accounting for 75.83% of toolkits. Exploit Toolkits are responsible for 37% of all threat activity and 32.9% of Spam messages originated from the USA followed by the United Kingdom with 3.9%. |
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