Impressive increase botcomputers
Protections business Symantec has calculated how many viruses and other internet threats in the past year be come by. The results stand in the Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR).
In the first half of 2005 registered the business, ten thousand active botnetcomputers clear away per day. That is an increase of more than 140 per cent compared with the same period a year before. Botcomputers are computers, of which the controls by a hacker have been taken about, and that at each other are linked an a large network to form. This botnets become uses for the sending of spam and for the exporting of Denial or Service (DoS)-attacklen.
The rising number botcomputers is then also one of the causes of the increase of the number of Thu-attack, Server becomes harasses breaks down by which a through talloze computers with information till that. In the first half of 2005 ascended the number of Thu-attack with more than 680 per cent till an average of 927 per day, according to Symantec.
Also the quantity spam ascended in the first half of this year, of on average 2.99 million until 5.70 million messages per day. The most important internet threat of this year is according to Symantec however phishing. In the beginning of 2005 indicated Symantec each week 21 million attempts till this form of internet fraud. A half year later on was that risen until 40 million attempts per week.
The most harmful virus of 2005 was Soberly. X, that in November became discovers. The second place is for Zotob. E, followed through Esbot. A, Soberly. O, MyDoom. AX and Beagle. PREY.
Symantec indicates ultimately two come up threats: sms-spam and bluetooth-hacking. Spam per sms is now all a plague in some Asian countries, below which South-Korea. The Koreaanse state desk for information protection (KISA) got 244,151 reports of mobile spam between January and October 2005, almost three turn so much as in the same period last year.
Bluetooth can become uses on different manners to send unsollicited messages or programs to install. Because the quantities devices with bluetooth tremendously have been increased, and this thread lynx network standard also on always more pc's back is to be found, fears Symantec that this a serious safeties risk can form in the near future.