Hi malware fighters,
Every day spammers will send two hundred billion spam messages, mainly through botnets. From numbers provided by M86 security 78% of all spam messages are coming from the top 5 botnets. The top two are Rustock and Pushdo botnets, together serving up 54% of total spam.
The number of malicious spam messages, email with a malicious attachment or with a link to a drive-by-download website, grew to three million a day. That means fivefold the number of the 600 million number seen during the first half of the year 2009. "It is important to make out the main spam mailers, so the industry can take action", according to Technical Strategy vice president Bradley Anstis.
Zero-day
The security researcher discovered in the second half of last year that 40% of attacks worked through zero-day security leaks. "One of the biggest problems with zero-days is the time developing between discovery and in the wild abuse and the launch of a patch by the software vendor."
This so-called "Window of Vulnerability" is getting smaller and smaller all the time, but even when a patch has been issued, users are slow to implement it. Take for instance the so-called MDAC-hole, patched during 2006, and still very popular with malcreants,
polonus
