Pegel Trojan is back in Top Malware programs

The Kaspersky Lab security specialists analyzed the statistics of the most spread 20 computer threats of June, signaling the comeback of the Pegel trojan in top malware programs online, after a “break” of almost six months. Also,the number of computer threats that exploit Microsoft Internet Explorer and Adobe Reader vulnerabilities is increasing, with new versions being created by hackers.

The first Top 20 presents computer threats, including adware and potentially bad rogue applications, that were detected and neutralized even from the first presence of them on the users computers.

The first 10 positions in June’s rankings remain unchanged compared to the Top 20 from May, with the Kido worm and Sality virus on the first four places. Exploit.JS.Agent.bab is a newcomer in this top.

P2P-Worm.Palevo is on the 11th place and it’s role is to search confidential data entered by the user in a web browser window. Palevo.fuc spreads through peer-to-peer file transfers like BearShare, iMesh, Shareaza and eMule and creates multiple copies of itself in the folders used for downloads and uploads of the files. To attract attention of the potential network victims, Palevo.fuc renames its copies in different names. Other spreading methods of this worm are multiple copying in network folders or other sources, sending links through Instant messaging programs and through USB storage devices. In this alst case, Palevo.fuc uses Trojan.Win32.Autorun to infect the storage devices. At least 50.000 USB devices were infected with two of the newest versions of Trojan.Win32.Autorun, which occupies number 18 and 20 in this top.

At least but not last, worm Worm.Win32.VBNA.b, which is on the 13th position, is a program written in Visual Basic and cataloged as an archive for different types of malware.

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