Computer Trojans held a share of around 52% in the new malware created during the past three months (April-June 2010), reveals Panda Security's new quarterly report on IT threats (Q2-2010).

According to the report, Trojans continue to be the most preferred malware types by the cybercriminals. It's not at all surprising given that threats like Clampi and Zbot, which stole millions of dollars from users and enterprises in just last one year, belong to this category only. Majority of spam today originate from Trojan-infected PCs.

Posted by Greg Hewitt-Long in Adware, Spyware and Trojans at 19:55

By John E Dunn

Researchers have discovered a bizarre piece of Trojan ransomeware which disables programs on infected PCs before demanding victims make an unaccountably small payment to a Ukrainian mobile phone network in return for an unlock code.

According to Webroot, the Krotten ransom Trojan is one of the oddest pieces of malware of the year. Taking the path of least resistance, it eschews the complex encryption outlook taken by a range of ransomware programs in the past and simply sets out to interfere with the host PC in as many ways as possible.

Posted by Greg Hewitt-Long in Adware, Spyware and Trojans at 19:25