ESET reports INF/Autorun.gen and Win32/Ramnit.A has shrink its affect compared to June 2013 report
BANGALORE / MUMBAI, India – August 14, 2013
ESET, global provider of security solutions for businesses and consumers, today published the threat report for India for the month of July 2013 by disclosing the findings that INF/Autorun.gen has shrink to 3.52% from 4.04% and Win32/Ramnit.A to 2.04% from 2.24% compared to June 2013 and Win32/Ramnit.A is also alarming. The report has been generated on a daily survey by ThreatSense.Net®.
ESET worldwide survey of 100 billion computer users uncovers some alarming attitudes towards
INF/Autorun.gen – a generic detection for an “autorun.inf” file created by malware. It can spread through spam, email attachments, malicious websites, unsafe downloads and many other ways.
Win32/Ramnit.A, which is a family of multi component malware that spreads to removable drives, steals sensitive information such as saved banking and FTP credentials and browser cookies. The malware may also open a backdoor to await instructions from a remote attacker. ESET is warning the users about all the malwares growing up on daily basis and reporting monthly.
Top Computer Threats in India
Source: ESET ThreatSense.Net® (July2013)
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