Malware attacks decline from the US, but increase from China, Russia and Korea
Thirty-five percent of all Internet intrusion attacks are coming from Korea, according to Network Box. Analysis of all Internet threats in November by the company shows that Korea accounts for more than double the intrusions of its nearest competitor, the US (14 per cent).
Spam and viruses are on the decline from the US, following the shutdown of the McColo spam hosting service earlier this month. Although over the full month, the US was the biggest source of spam and viruses, this dropped sharply towards the end of November, when China took the top spot in the spam charts.
Top Ten Viruses
Threat Name Daily Average %
1. spam.phish.url 35.67821
2. can-2003-0161 14.69491
3. trojan-spy.html.fraud.gen 5.30703
4. trojan-dropper.win32.agent.yzp 4.05881
5. nbh-bscript 3.16169
6. spam.porn.spam_nb_porn_subj_csk_1 2.50091
7. nbh-multext 2.35456
8. policy_prohibits_’exe’_nested_at 1.79322
9. Trojan-psw.win32.agent.lcc 1.78064
10. clm.html.phishing.pay-36 1.31201
Top Ten Trojans
Threat Name Daily Average %
1. trojan-spy.html.fraud.gen 0.11455
2. trojan-dropper.win32.agent.yzp 0.09805
3. trojan-psw.win32.agent.lcc 0.05511
4. trojan-spy.win32.zbot.fql 0.03281
5. trojan-spy.win32.zbot.frh 0.02655
6. clm.trojan.agent-61609 0.01474
7. trojan.win32.agent.amzt 0.01355
8. trojan-downloader.win32.small.afzf 0.00847
9. trojan-spy.win32.zbot.ghq 0.00711
10. trojan-downloader.win32.agent.anaq 0.00636
Top Ten Intrusions
Threat Name Daily Average %
1. NETBIOS 35.61600
2. BOGON 13.72736
3. PINGFLOOD 7.14538
4. HTTP-S-WEBDAV 0.03116
5. ICMP 0.02818
6. HTTP-S-WEBDEX 0.01964
7. SOBIG-F 0.01383
8. HTTP-S-NIMDA 0.00477
9. HTTP-S-UNIXATTACK 0.00439
10. HTTP-S-IISATTACK 0.00378
Top Ten Sources of Viruses
Country Daily Average %
1. US 19.49704
2. China 6.49728
3. Korea 6.36452
4. Australia 5.46776
5. UK 4.40333
6. Ukraine 4.39740
7. Turkey 3.88654
8. Russia 3.60779
9. Brazil 3.42233
10. Spain 2.77787
Top Ten Sources of Spam
Country Daily Average %
1. US 14.43738
2. China 9.99901
3. Korea 6.67193
4. Turkey 6.31428
5. Australia 5.94338
6. UK 4.46450
7. Brazil 4.19417
8. Spain 4.10385
9. Russia 3.83448
10. Poland 2.77324
Top Ten Sources of Intrusions
Country Daily Average %
1. Korea 34.90125
2. US 15.97265
3. Hong Kong 8.88417
4. China 8.45910
5. Malaysia 5.59282
6. Australia 3.90484
7. Turkey 1.46664
8. Brazil 1.15039
9. UK 1.00705
10. Poland 0.95489