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A team assembled by honeynet specialist Thorsten Holz from the University of Mannheim has published a case study of banking trojans, keyloggers and their dropzones. The researchers observed a variety of malware and their activities over an extended period and discovered over 33 GBytes of log files in the dropzones of over 70 different data-stealing pests.

The RSA FraudAction Research Lab has published the results of its findings based on its tracking and research of the Sinowal Trojan, also known as Torpig and Mebroot. The data collected during almost three years indicate that this may be one of the most pervasive and advanced pieces of crimeware ever created by fraudsters.

“Windows Vista is better at protecting against malware than XP but more easily infected than Windows 2000, according to a study by Australian anti-virus firm PC Tools. [...] Recent research based on malware scans of more than 1.4m PCs running PC Tools’ ThreatFire security technology over a period of six months turned up 639 threats [...]

Alexander Gostev, Senior Virus Analyst at Kaspersky Lab, has released the report “Malware evolution: January – March 2008″. What is interesting, in brief.