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Cyber criminals have a 10 per cent success rate
07/28/2010
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Eric Doyle - July 27, 2010
At least one in 10 machines are susceptible to malware, according to security specialist AVG.
A mere 165 domains have managed to infect 1.2 million machines by using an exploit toolkit called Eleonore. The exploits were tracked by AVG in a study involving around 12 million attempted infections.
Eleonore looks for certain unpatched vulnerabilities in browsers, Adobe Acrobat Reader and Sun Java's JVM. Once found, the toolkit can be used to infect the computer with malware that can steal data. The cyber criminals can also auction access to the PC in online black markets. This allows other criminal groups to set up botnets of considerable size for launching denial of service attacks.
An antivirus research team noticed an increase in the use of Eleonore through the anonymous data AVG gathers through its antivirus software. When the software is installed, the user can opt to send data to AVG and many do. 165 domains seemed to be showing much more activity and were prime targets for a bit of reverse hacking.
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