From late May through June, Commtouch Labs noted a sharp rise in the number of new viruses being circulated via email that were not caught by the major anti-virus engines. A new Malware Report released by the company details several outbreaks whose wide distribution caused malware numbers to temporarily and exponentially increase from the rather [...]
Leading security company and Commtouch partner F-Secure published its semi-annual IT Security Threat Summary today. Their labs have seen the number of malware samples double since the beginning of 2007, from 250,000 to 500,000.
Source: F-Secure
It’s not so much that there are new types of malicious code, but that malware writers are mass producing slightly tweaked [...]
Commtouch publicized the new Malware Outbreak Center earlier this week, a resource on our web site to learn about new malware variants, and comparative catch-times for each of the AV engines. All very nice info for Commtouch commercial purposes, to try to convince AV and mail security vendors to add Zero Hour Virus Outbreak Protection [...]
