Computer Trojans held a share of around 52% in the new malware created during the past three months (April-June 2010), reveals Panda Security's new quarterly report on IT threats (Q2-2010).

According to the report, Trojans continue to be the most preferred malware types by the cybercriminals. It's not at all surprising given that threats like Clampi and Zbot, which stole millions of dollars from users and enterprises in just last one year, belong to this category only. Majority of spam today originate from Trojan-infected PCs.

Posted by Greg Hewitt-Long in Adware, Spyware and Trojans at 19:55

By John E Dunn

Researchers have discovered a bizarre piece of Trojan ransomeware which disables programs on infected PCs before demanding victims make an unaccountably small payment to a Ukrainian mobile phone network in return for an unlock code.

According to Webroot, the Krotten ransom Trojan is one of the oddest pieces of malware of the year. Taking the path of least resistance, it eschews the complex encryption outlook taken by a range of ransomware programs in the past and simply sets out to interfere with the host PC in as many ways as possible.

Posted by Greg Hewitt-Long in Adware, Spyware and Trojans at 19:25

By John Leyden

Security experts in Hong Kong last week succeeded in taking down a key component of the Koobface bonnet, only to witness the system popping up in China.

The Koobface FTP grabber component uploaded stolen FTP user names and passwords to the remote server, which was under the control of cybercrooks. These stolen login credentials gave a pass into corporate networks and valuable data before the server was taken down last week, largely thanks to the efforts of the Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Centre (HKCERT).

Posted by Kyle Reiners in Adware, Spyware and Trojans at 09:00

Security experts have advised Farm Town's 9.6 million Facebook players to perform an immediate virus scan on their computers, after it was discovered that the site had been serving up adverts infected with malware.

SlashKey, the company behind Farm Town, warned that some of the adverts appearing around the game contained fake antivirus alerts, and were designed to con players in to believing their computer was infected with a virus. Players would then click on the advert to purchase antivirus software, but the site would trick them out of their credit card details.

Posted by Kyle Reiners in Adware, Spyware and Trojans at 10:43