The growth of malware

[AplusWebMaster]

Wow... 'really sad. :sad:

- http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/growth-of-malware.html
January 24, 2008 - "Interesting data from Andreas Marx at AV-Test.org. This chart shows the growth of unique samples (by MD5) per year...

Year # of unique samples (MD5) (Abbreviated list)
1985 564
1986 910
1987 389
1988 1,738...
2005 333,425
2006 972,606
2007 5,490,960

It's worth noting that these numbers are also increasing because of variants -- i.e. the same Trojan will be changed sometimes hourly or daily just to try and fool the scanners. So it's not like there's over 5 million unique pieces of malware. There are many that are variants of the same piece of malware. Nevertheless, this is a good representation of the staggering load of malware that anti-malware folks are under... A small platoon won’t win this war. You need a brigade."

> http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ihs/alex/malwaremd5charts.PNG

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[AplusWebMaster]

FYI...

RBN "Rizing" report...
- http://www.shadowserver.org/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Calendar.20080301
1 March 2008 - "...Previous studies have suggested that the RBN has ties to nearly every area of cybercrime, including: phishing, malware, DDOS activity, pornography, botnets, and anonymization. In November 2007, media reporting indicated that a large portion of the RBN “went dark.” Since that time, the Shadowserver Foundation has been more closely analyzing outlying networks implicated as being associated with RBN... SecurityZone.org reported in early December 2007 that while not everything in TurkTelekom appears to be malicious, there are some ranges that are “particularly bad” and analysis of Shadowserver Foundation data agrees. Several subranges quickly stand out as being deeply involved in malicious cyber activity..."

(PDF document link at the URL above - outstanding report from Shadowserver. Great work!)

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[AplusWebMaster]

FYI...

- http://www.av-test.org/index.php?lang=0&menue=2
2008-03-10 (March test results of Antivirus programs*)...
* http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/march-test-results-of-antivirus.html
(From Andreas Marx of AV-Test.org) - "...The number of MD5-unique malware samples received by AV-Test.org increased from about 333,000 in 2005 to 972,000 in 2006, and 5,490,000 in 2007. During January and February 2008 alone we found more than 1.1 million samples spreading in the internet..."

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