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Malware In Email Slowing Down?
Chris Crum
Staff Writer
2006-06-15
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PC Advisor reports that Sophos claims that the amount of emails containing malware has significantly decreased since last year.
They say that the first six months of this year, showed about one out of every 91 messages contained malware, while the first six months of last year showed one out of every 35. PC Advisor writes:Malware writers are increasing their focus on Trojan horse programs, a class of malicious software that can include programs called keyloggers. Keyloggers send user logins and passwords to a server controlled by a hacker. The programs can harvest credit card numbers and other personal data that could be used in an identity theft scheme.
Trojan horse programs, unlike viruses, do not replicate themselves. About 81 percent of the new bad software Sophos sees circulated on the internet are these kinds of programs. Sophos senior technology consultant Graham Cluley says that the "bad guys" are changing their tactics in order to stay undetected.
In fact, that is a subject that Sophos's Mark Harris will be discussing this month at the "Malware - Virus, spyware and rootkits" seminar in Stockholm, Sweden.
Tags: malware
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Chris Crum is a staff writer for SecurityProNews and WebProNews.
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