{"id":2275,"date":"2013-04-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/17\/microsoft-says-worm-infections-declining-but-web-attacks-rising\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:40:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:40:59","slug":"microsoft-says-worm-infections-declining-but-web-attacks-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/17\/microsoft-says-worm-infections-declining-but-web-attacks-rising\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Says Worm Infections Declining, but Web Attacks Rising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;\">Companies are rooting out Conficker and Autorun worms from their networks, but attacks through the Web are still causing problems, according to Microsoft&#8217;s latest report.<\/span> <span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;\">In the last half of 2012, the average number of infections by the two major wormlike programs, Conficker and Autorun, declined by more than a third compared with the total in 2011, the company said.<\/span> <span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;\">While companies are slowly tackling the threat of worms, Web-based attacks\u2014especially those that redirect a victim&#8217;s browser to a site hosting malicious code\u2014have taken off, accounting for seven of the 10 top threats encountered by corporate users, the report stated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;\">Conficker, a worm that started spreading among enterprise desktop systems in 2008, continues to wriggle through corporate networks.<\/span> <span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;\">But the total number of infected systems shrank during 2012, according to the latest Security Intelligence Report released by Microsoft on April 17.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;\">&#8220;In the last quarter of 2012, a person in the enterprise was more likely to encounter attacks through the Web than any of the network worms,&#8221; Holly Stewart, senior program manager with the Microsoft Malware Protection Center, told eWEEK.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;\">Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/security\/microsoft-says-worm-infections-declining-but-web-attacks-rising\/\">http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/security\/microsoft-says-worm-infections-declining-but-web-attacks-rising\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4762,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions\/4762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}