Major network security vendor and the global major for UTM (unified threat management) solutions, Fortinet lately issued its new June 2011 Threat Landscape Report, elaborating on cyber assaults and data breaches like an SQL injection assault against Sony Europe, one critical data hack at the IMF (International Monetary Fund), the constant attacks by the LulzSec hacktivism collective against the government of United States and so on.
Moreover, the report further discusses the malware scenario of the month. Thus as per it, Fortinet spotted the most widespread PC worm once again as Fraudload.OR, accounting for 14.32% of all detections. The worm reportedly, commonly takes the guise of rogue anti-virus software, although it can pull down other PC Trojans or malicious programs as well on a contaminated PC. Recently, over the past weeks, Fraudload.OR was behind over 33% of fresh incidences of malware infections, the report discovers.
Further according to the report, for almost 2 months, Fraudload.OR continued to be extremely active, essentially boosted with the success that rogue anti-virus downloaders such as Fraudload.OR had attained.
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