Lionic Security Report : Malware Proliferation Top Security Trends in 2011
The number of malwares has reached almost 15 million, according to a report released.
Online, January 18, 2012 (Newswire.com) - Lionic, a leading company of networking and mobile security solution, today announced that it has completed a Malicious URLs and Malwares statistics report in 2011. According to this report, it's a transformative year in many ways as we saw great changes in threats. Many of these changes and trends will continue to influence the diversified cyberthreats in the coming year.
There are two main statistics types of danger : Malware and Malicious URLs. Internet has already become a main target for hackers, this is why users should pay attention for both PC and any device which are able for internet connection.
Here, Lionic lists down what top security threats ranking are in 2011.
Malwares
The number one malware of 2011 is type of Trojan. Trojan attempts to exploit vulnerabilities in the operating system to gain root access, it also can make copies of themselves, steal information, or harm the computer system.
Ranking / Malware Type / Num
1 / Trojan---------------------9,071,878
2 / Packed Malwares------1,533,296
3 / Porn Malwares----------1,504,337
4 / Backdoor--------------------760,544
5 / Worm-------------------------460,047
6 / Virus--------------------------310,045
7 / Ad Ware ---------------------162,370
8 / Hoax ------------------------- 123,335
9 / Exploit ------------------------- 59,409
10 / Root kit ----------------------- 28,368
11 / Hack Tool --------------------- 11,052
Others --------------------------------11,831
Malicious URLs
As you can see that domains from the United States dominate most of the malicious URL.
Ranking / Country Code / Num
1 / United States(US) -------------- 83,309
2 / South Korea(KR) --------------- 18,260
3 / China(CN) -------------------------- 4,291
4 / Netherlands(NL)-------------------3,417
5 / British Virgin Islands(VG) ------ 3,347
6 / Czech Republic(CZ) -------------- 3,326
7 / Russian Federation(RU) -------- 2,837
8 / Germany(DE) ----------------------- 2,771
9 / Canada(CA) ------------------------- 1,459
10 / Brazil(BR) -----------------------------1,333
11 / Ukraine(UA) --------------------------1,180
"We are proud to help our customers for cyberthreat protection, and here, we would like to remind users again that the cyberthreat is getting serious dramatically. It is necessary to have protection for info-security." commented Mr. Eric Lu, CEO of Lionic.
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