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McAfee Labs :

2007 Q1 malware trends

Friday, March 30, 2007 at 2:31am by Gaith Taha
Gaith Taha

As we move toward another quarter of 2007, we would like to take a moment and look back at the malware trends for the last three months. Our stats show that two of the top-five caught malware are variants of JS/Feebs.

  1. W32/Sality.x
  2. W32/Mytob.gen@MM
  3. W32/Mydoom.bg@MM
  4. JS/Feebs.gen.x@MM
  5. JS/Feebs.gen.r@MM

Recently, we have had much success in catching new variants of JS/Feebs under the .x and .r detections which, in fact, identify hundreds of other minor variants. The way JS/Feebs authors operate is by mass-spamming people with emails containing a .ZIP file that includes a .HTA (Hypertext-Application) file which acts as a downloader for another W32/Feebs. People should be particularly careful when opening .HTA files as they often contain malicious code.

Moreover, in Q1 we continued to observe new variants of Downloader-AAP, W32/Stration, and even the circulation of older viruses and worms like W32/Sality, W32/Mytob, and W32/Mydoom.

Finally, in a shameless self-promotion, Q1 has witnessed a huge success for us in terms of writing new generic detections as you can see here

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  • Thamer Al-Suwaidi April 10, 2007 5:45AM

    everyday McAfee (v8.0) detect sality.x and move some exe files. However, how can I stop this malware coming every day?? it is a threat in my network. I need fast responce

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