Christmas Spirit
The overall statisitics for viruses and phishing have not fluctuated much from last month. Spam is down slightly.
Below, we have the daily breakdown for ham, spam, viruses and phishing.
We can certainly see the decline in the emails over the Christmas time - spammers especially.
World of Spam
The volume per geographical location for spam, viruses and phishing emails for December can be seen below.
Viruses: it Christmas time and time for a Trojan …
A new number one for Christmas!! Trojan.Downloader-390 also known as Luder.A (F-secure) - this is an e-mail worm, a dropper for a trojan downloader and a file infector. This virus sends itself as an attachment usually called ‘postcard.exe’, with the ‘Happy New Year! in the subject line.
| Position | Virus | Percentage | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  |
Trojan.Downloader-390 |
|
54.11% | |
| 2 |  |
Worm.SomeFool.Gen-2 |
|
24.70% | |
| 3 | |
Trojan.Downloader-388 |
|
7.86% | |
| 4 | |
Worm.SomeFool.P |
|
4.16% | |
| 5 | |
Worm.Mytob.CL |
|
1.82% | |
| 6 | |
Exploit.HTML.IFrame |
|
1.66% | |
| 7 | |
Worm.Stration.WZ |
|
1.55% | |
| 8 | |
Worm.SomeFool.Gen-1 |
|
1.46% | |
| 9 | |
Worm.Mytob.BM-2 |
|
1.31% | |
| 10 | |
Worm.Stration.XH-1 |
|
1.26% | |
Phishing:
Barclays has kept the top place for December, but Fifth Third Bank is a close second.
