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Google delivers twice the amount of malware than Twitter, Yahoo and Bing combined
According to Barracuda Networks' Barracuda Labs 2010 Midyear Security Report, Google delivers twice more malware than Yahoo!, Twitter and Bing combined.
Barracuda Labs conducted the study across Google, Twitter, Yahoo! and Bing, over a roughly two-month period. The analysis reviews more than 25,000 trending topics and nearly 5.5 million search results. The purpose of the study was to analyse trending topics on popular search engines to understand the scope of the problem and to identify the types of topics used by malware distributors.
Key highlights from the search engine study include:
* Overall, Google takes the crown for malware distribution – turning up more than twice the amount of malware as Bing, Twitter and Yahoo! combined when searches on popular trending topics were performed. Google presents at 69 per cent; Yahoo! at 18 per cent; Bing at 12 per cent; and Twitter at one per cent.
* The average amount of time for a trending topic to appear on one of the ma... [ more ]
Rapport's financial malware disinfection removes malicious code that attempts to attack browser sessions
Zeus and other online fraud Trojans are increasingly being remotely reconfigured by criminals to deliver new, more targeted and more authentic looking attacks. For example, Trusteer recently discovered campaigns that use Zeus to exploit the familiar Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode security programs and launch regionally-focused attacks against specific banks. Recent studies from Trusteer and other fraud detection vendors show that antivirus solutions detect only 10 percent of active financial malware.
Trusteer has added financial malware disinfection to its Rapport service. In addition to preventing Trojans like Zeus, Silon, Bugat, DBJP and zero day malware from tampering with website communications and transactions, Rapport now removes malicious code that attempts to attack browser sessions.
This new capability is being provided at no additional cost to all Rapport customers and end users. Trusteer will also submit any new (zero day) malware it discovers to all anti... [ more ]
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