Kaspersky lab releases its report
Kaspersky Lab has released its Report for the month of November. The following statistics were compiled in November using data collected from computers running Kaspersky Lab products: 204,595,286 network attacks were blocked; 89,001,505 web-borne infections were prevented; 238,045,358 malicious programs were detected and neutralized on user computers; and 98,047,245 heuristic verdicts were registered.
November was relatively calm in terms of traditional threats. The Duqu Trojan, which was detected in September and hit the headlines in October, remained the center of attention for IT security experts and the mass media in November. The headline news was the discovery of how the malicious program penetrated computer systems. The attacks took place via email with the help of a Microsoft Word document that contained an exploit to a previously unknown vulnerability in Windows. An error in win32k.sys allowed the malicious code to be executed from a file with system privileges.
Kaspersky Lab experts managed to trace the original message with the dropper and exploit that was sent to a victim in Sudan. A detailed analysis was published in a recent blog post. Kaspersky Lab immediately added a signature for this exploit to its product databases.
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