Threat Trends Report

The March Threatsense report at http://www.eset.com/us/resources/threat-trends/Global_Threat_Trends_March_2011.pdf includes, apart from the Top Ten threats:

• a feature article on Japanese-disaster-related scamming by Urban Schrott and myself
• news of the Infosec Europe expo in London on the 19th-21st April, the AMTSO and CARO workshops in Prague in May, and the EICAR Conference in Austria that follows
• the story of a fake AV package passing itself off as an ESET product
• commentary on a premature requiem for the firewall
• commentary on a lo-tech ATM scam reported by Randy Abrams

While the top ten ran like this:

1. INF/Autorun
2. Win32/Conficker
3. Win32/PSW.OnLineGames
4. Win32/Sality
5. INF/Conficker
6. Win32/Bflient
7. Win32/Autorun
8. Win32/Tifaut.C
9. Win32/Autoit
10. Win32/Spy.Ursnif.A

Much more information on the Threat Center page.

David Harley CITP FBCS CISSP
ESET Senior Research Fellow