A third of world viruses are produced in Korea, the USA and the UK
The US and India continue to dominate the production of the world’s spam, with the US producing 10.7 per cent, and India 7.1 per cent (similar figures from last month).
Russia has seen a decline in viruses produced from within its borders – possibly an early result of Russian hosting service, PROXIEZ-NET – notoriously used by criminal gangs – being taken down earlier this year.
Simon Heron, internet security analyst for Network Box, says: “PROXIEX-NET had advertised itself as being impossible to shut down. But, like the McColo shutdown in November 2008, it is always possible to shut down these hubs of criminal activity. The result is that it makes it harder for criminals to find a place to host their servers.
“However, it does not mean that cyber crooks won’t be back up and running in fairly swift order. We saw a dramatic fall in spam as a result of the McColo shutdown, but levels returned to pre-shutdown highs the following month.”
Top Ten Sources of Viruses
Country Daily Average %
Korea 16.26725
US 11.68232
UK 5.96639
India 5.53401
China 4.30964
Russia 2.76254
Australia 2.65889
Italy 2.04414
Colombia 1.96962
Brazil 1.80766
Top Ten Sources of Spam
Country Daily Average %
US 10.70529
India 7.19362
Brazil 5.05437
UK 4.12765
Germany 3.78905
China 3.48135
Korea 3.34614
Russia 3.26086
France 3.21968
Italy 3.05607
Top Ten Viruses
Threat Name Daily Average %
nbh-bgtrack 12.72125
packed.win32.katusha.l 9.75616
nbh-bbadhdr 7.28738
packed.win32.krap.an 6.95395
spam.porn.porn_nb_pornhint_34 5.14152
trojan-downloader.win32.agent.dlhe 5.14034
policy_prohibits_'exe'_nested_at 4.73396
trojan.win32.vbkrypt.xh 3.71222
eicar-test-file 2.19487
nbh-multext 2.16098
Top Ten Trojans
Threat Name Daily Average %
trojan-downloader.win32.agent.dlhe 0.03118
trojan.win32.oficla.ae 0.01197
trojan.win32.fakeav.mt 0.00730
trojan-dropper.win32.agent.cbhm 0.00534
trojan.win32.fakeav.lx 0.00509
trojan-spy.html.fraud.gen 0.00369
trojan.win32.inject.apdr 0.00345
trojan-dropper.win32.small.fbq 0.00345
trojan-dropper.win32.agent.bzst 0.00331
trojan.win32.vbkrypt.xh 0.00312
Top Ten Intrusions
Threat Name Daily Average %
NETBIOS 36.12451
BOGON 6.55250
PINGFLOOD 1.44063
HTTP-S-WEBDAV 0.28453
ICMP 0.13130
HTTP-S-WEBDEX 0.04586
SOBIG-F 0.02618
HTTP-S-NIMDA 0.00604
HTTP-S-UNIXATTACK 0.00473
HTTP-S-CODERED 0.00154
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