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Article from ADMIN 09/2012

By ADMIN Magazine

Trojans Make Up Eighty Percent of New Malware

PandaLabs, Panda Security's anti-malware laboratory, recently published its Quarterly Report, analyzing the IT security events and incidents from January 2012 through March 2012. According to the report, 6 million new malware samples were created in the first quarter of 2012.

The announcement states that "Trojans set a new record as the preferred category of cybercriminals for carrying out information theft, representing 80 percent of all new malware. In 2011, Trojans 'only' accounted for 73 percent of all malware; worms took second place, comprising 9.30 percent of samples; followed by viruses at 6.43 percent. Interestingly in 2012, worms and viruses swapped positions from the 2011 Annual Report, where viruses stood at 14.25 percent and worms at 8 percent of all circulating malware."

According to the report, the average number of infected PCs around the world stands at 35.51 percent, which is slightly down from 2011. China led this ranking (with 54.25 percent of infected PCs), followed by Taiwan and Turkey. The list of top 10 least infected countries is dominated by European countries, with the top three being Sweden, Switzerland, and Norway.

The report also covers attacks on Android phones, distribution of malware via Facebook, the Megaupload case, cyber-war, and activities of the Anonymous and LulzSec hacktivist groups. The quarterly report can be downloaded from: http://press.pandasecurity.com/press-room/reports/.

Dell Announces 40-Gigabit Blade Server Switch

Dell recently announced new hardware and software additions to its Virtual Network Architecture portfolio, an open networking framework for efficient IT management and workload intelligence. Dell introduced the Dell

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