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The Month: Threat Stats

Decoding the data on strategic threats and concerns hovering over the CIO's radar.

TOP 20 ONLINE SCANNER
Position Change in Name Percentage
position
1 New Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Agent.bjo 1.24
2 +4 Trojan.Win32.Agent.qt 1.23
3 +2 not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.Virtumonde.if 1.19
4 Re-entry Backdoor.IRC.Zapchast 1.17
5 New Trojan-Downloader.Win32.LoadAdv.gen 1.16
6 New Email-Worm.Win32.Zhelatin.dp 1.13
7 New Email-Worm.Win32.Zhelatin.dn 1.12
8 0 Virus.VBS.Small.a 1.07
9 New Trojan.Win32.Dialer.qn 0.90
10 New Email-Worm.Win32.Zhelatin.dm 0.85
11 -7 Email-Worm.Win32.Brontok.q 0.73
12 New IM-Worm.Win32.VB.az 0.68
13 New Email-Worm.Win32.Warezov.ns 0.67
14 0 Email-Worm.Win32.Rays 0.67
15 New Trojan.Win32.Obfuscated.en 0.63
16 New not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.Virtumonde.bq 0.54
17 New Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Small.ddp 0.51
18 New not-a-virus:Monitor.Win32.Perflogger.ca 0.50
19 Re-entry not-a-virus:PSWTool.Win32.RAS.a 0.48
20 Re-entry Virus.Win32.Parite.b 0.48

CONUNDRUM85% - Staff who could take sensitive data

The vast majority of employees questioned admitted that they couldeasily take confidential information out of the company. Source: CheckPoint

74% - Companies forbid data leaving office

This is despite the fact that three quarters of companies having apolicy in place prohibiting employees from taking such information outof the office.

Phishing - Attacks are on the rise again

After a quiet month in June, the phishers are starting to ramp upactivity with the number of emails going out rising by just over 30 percent. The Cooperative Bank, which was targeted heavily last month, hasgone right off the villain's radar, suggesting a less than successfulphishing expedition among the Manchester-based bank's customers.Instead, attention now seems to have switched back to old favouriteseBay and PayPal.

Source: ECSC.

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