{"id":32,"date":"2008-04-10T11:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbachnet.wwwmi3-ss40.a2hosted.com\/2008\/04\/10\/security-vendors-predict-malware-will-exceed-1-million-in-08\/"},"modified":"2022-12-30T11:57:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T16:57:23","slug":"malware-to-exceed-1-million-in-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/malware-to-exceed-1-million-in-08\/","title":{"rendered":"Malware to exceed 1 Million in ’08"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MalwareThe total number of viruses will reach one million by year’s end<\/strong>, according to Sophos<\/a><\/strong> chief technology officer Paul Ducklin in an article in PC World<\/a>. <\/em>Most striking to me is that Ducklin claims 25 percent of unique malware<\/a> have been created in the last six months of its 20-year history. That translates into 250,000 attack vectors in 6 months or nearly 60 unique malware<\/strong> vectors (as defined by Sophos) an hour<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Ducklin offers some hope, “About 85 to 90 percent of malware families have a fix created for them almost immediately,<\/em>” which leaves over 50 new attack vectors an hour<\/strong> that have to be identified, code written and updates distributed.<\/p>\n

In the same PC World<\/span> article F-Secure<\/a><\/strong> Asia-Pacific vice president Jari Heinonen said it logs about 25,000 malware samples each day, the highest on record.<\/p>\n

“The total number of viruses and Trojans will pass the one million mark by the end of 2008 if this trend continues,<\/em>” Heinonen said.<\/p>\n

Both Sopho’s\u00a0Ducklin\u00a0and\u00a0F-Secure’s Heinonen say that drive-by-downloads<\/strong> of malware, due to iframes vulnerabilities<\/strong> are growing. F-Secure’s Heinonen “Drive-by downloads<\/em><\/a> are the preferred way of spreading malware [because] they happen automatically by visiting a Website unless users have a fully patched operating system, browser, and plug-ins.<\/em>“<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Heinonen also predicts that malware will increasingly target the kernel sector through rootkits such as Mebroot, which attacks the bootstrap sector. A resurgent Mebroot was detected last month, some 15 years after the DOS-based malware was created.<\/p>\n

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Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0Bach Seat<\/a> about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. You can follow him on LinkedIn<\/a>,\u00a0Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0Twitter<\/a>. Email the Bach Seat\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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