Security Company Fortinet lately published its new 'August 2011 Threat Landscape Report' according to which, a scareware downloader named W32/FraudLoad.OR constituted 58% of all fresh malicious software detected during August 2011.
Remarking about this malware, Senior Security Strategist Derek Manky at Fortinet stated that conventionally FraudLoad downloaded bogus AV programs onto an unwary end-user's computer, however, at the Fortinet laboratory, researchers discovered that it wasn't uncommon to have botnet downloaders such as FraudLoad for pulling down extra malicious programs like spam bots. Marketwatch.com published this on September 9, 2011.
Furthermore, Fortinet reports that following Trojan FraudLoad, one freshly identified variant of the ZeuS bot namely W32/Zbot.47CE!tr ranks No.2 on its list of most prevalent malicious programs of August 2011.
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