USB worms have taken the No. 1 spot for top malware in the world, according to a McAfee threat report, released Tuesday. In addition, the “McAfee Threats Report, First Quarter 2010” indicated a trend of diploma spam coming from China and other Asian countries, while spammers are continuing to exploit high-profile news events, such as the Haiti earthquake, by poisoning search engines. Finally, the report found that U.S.-based servers continue to host the majority of malicious URLs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Threats on portable storage devices rose to the top of the list as the most popular malware, evident by a rash of AutoRun infections that held the No. 1 and No. 3 spots for top five malware over the last quarter. Security experts contend that attacks delivered via portable storage devices have experienced a revival in recent months, after being dormant for an extensive period of time. “It’s kind of like your old-school style of malware, one device to another device” said Dave Marcus, security research and communications manager for McAfee Labs.<\/p>\n
All of the top five threats remained consistently popular worldwide.<\/p>\n
Marcus said that social-engineering attacks, particularly those targeting social networks, are continuing on a rapid upward trend. “A lot of people don’t realize the bad guys read the same news the good guys do,” Marcus said.<\/p>\n
And despite reports of copious malware sourced internationally, the report also showed that the U.S hosted the vast majority of new malicious URLs, totaling 98 percent.<\/p>\n
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