International . The global use of cell phones to connect to the Internet grew by 19.3 percent last March, according to Ópera, a developer that provides its mobile browser.
This increase has been given, according to cell phone operators, by the adoption of wireless data cards for laptops; Additionally, these companies are focusing on offering customers data transmission services due to the drop in revenue from voice calls.
Opera said its mobile search engine, Opera Mini, has 23 million users, which generated more than 148 million megabytes of data traffic for operators around the world in March.
International . Although the expected number of incidents related to the Conficker worm were not reported, McAfee recommends that users continue to implement protective measures for their computers, such as security patches, firewalls, and anti-malware to defend against malicious programs such as viruses, Trojans, and spyware.
Internet consumers should also consider protecting themselves from phishing and spam, and be aware of the latest threats that appear on the Internet.
International . During the past march mez the conficker worm remained in the first position of detections due to the large number of new variants it presented, as reported by the computer security company Eset.
The Waledac Trojan, which appeared in February as fake Valentine's Day postcards, also gave variations through spam emails that according to Eset, pretend to be news sent by news agencies about an explosion in different cities of the world.
An attack technique also appeared at the end of the month that first infected routers and modems with Linux platforms.
International . The threat of the Conficker worm remains latent. Its spread rates account for 8.9 percent of the global rate of malware detections.
From this worm constantly appear new variables that make it one of the most complex threats due to its high number of affected users. Worldwide the rate of spread is close to 9%, in Latin America it exceeds 10% and for example in Argentina about 25% of the teams reported the detection of the Conficker worm, according to data from ThreatSense.Net, Eset's early warning system.
Many of the variants of this malware exhibit the date of the next updates, one of these is scheduled for April 1, 2009.
Due to the fear that this news has raised, Luis Corrons, technical director of PandaLabs, assures that the Conficker malicious program creates URLs randomly; then, on infected computers check if in any of those URLs there is any new version of your code and if so download it to the computer.
By April 1, the latest variant will create 50,000 new URLs. "We can't know if any of them will host a Conficker update. Its author could host in those URLs even another type of malware that does not have to be an update of Conficker, "says Corrons.
Since November 2008 began the spread of Conficker, which exploited a vulnerability of Windows to be distributed, and that is why it has reached many computers. This worm uses different means of infection especially through USB keys, MP3 players, etc.
ESET recommends protecting yourself to avoid falling victim to this worm by having updated Windows systems on the network, disabling the automatic execution of USB devices, protecting network shares with strong passwords and having an antivirus with proactive detection capabilities against new and unknown threats.
International . According to data provided by the security company Eset, the Win32/Conficker worm ranked first in the ranking of malicious file propagation in February 2009, with a percentage of 7.48 percent of total detections.
This worm spreads in work networks taking advantage of a recent vulnerability in Microsoft's Windows operating systems, which is located in the RPC subsystem and can be exploited remotely by the attacker, allowing him to perform malicious actions without using valid user credentials. In addition, there is an upward trend of the spread of Win32/Conficker variants propagating through shared resources and removable storage devices.
On the other hand, the Win32/PSW. OnlineGames ranked second with 7.33 percent, while INF/Autorun dropped to third place with 6.44 percent of the total.
The Win32/Agent continues in fourth place with 3.67. This threat is a generic detection that describes a number of members of a broad family of malware capable of stealing user information from infected computers.
Win32/TrojanDownloader.Swizzor.NBF appears in the fifth position with 2.07 percent of the total and is a malware frequently used to download and install other malicious components on an infected computer, usually adware.
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