Computer Security Quarterly Report - Panda Labs

Panda Labs has released a very nice write-up about the current Computer Security threats and what users face today in the ever ongoing battle against security threats, ID and Personal Data Theft, viruses, spyware, malware, and others.



Executive Summary:

At 62.16%, Trojans account for most of the malware, implementing scrambling and distribution functions.

Trojans that steal users' personal details through distribution channels provided by spammers continue to increase.

Storm Worm is still active and continues using social engineering techniques to spread massively.

Scrambling, encryption and packaging techniques aimes at making malware detection more difficult are on the rise.

Social engineering techniques that exploit the information published on social networks for identity theft are also increasing.

Its numerous users have made Symbian a target platform for malware creators.


Read the White Paper "Quarterly Report Panda Labs (January - March 2008)" here on our Homepage.


Thanks and Credit goes to Panda Secuirty for providing this write-up.