The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) recently issued its Phishing Activity Trends Report for H1-2011 i.e. first ½-year of 2011 according to which, certain crimeware's propagation rose during January-June 2011, with malicious programs, designed to steal data climbing to a new infection level as well as remaining stable thereof, so published Marketwatch.com in news on December 25, 2011.
Specifically, during H1-2011, there was an over 45% rise in data-stealing programs as well as general PC Trojans from total malware spotted between January 2011 and April 2011. Thereafter, the increase leveled at much more than 40% during H2-2011 i.e. July-December 2011. Previously, the maximum increase in these malware programs was 44% during just one month i.e. August 2010.
Incidentally, these programs represent the most fundamental trends of cyber-crime since data-stealing malicious software characteristically dispatches information from contaminated computers for taking hold over them followed with creating backdoors to let the malicious software's controller gain access of them.
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