Lavasoft Security Bulletin - October 2015: Top Threats

Top 20 Blocked Malware

PositionAd-Aware detection% of all threatsChange in ranking
1Trojan.IFrame.G17.51%new
2Trojan.LNK.Gen5.40%+2.98%
3Trojan.HTML.Ramnit.A3.28%+0.11%
4Gen:Variant.Barys.4413.24%new
5Win32.Parite.B2.14%new
6Win32.Jeefo.B0.90%-0.68%
7Gen:Trojan.Heur.VP2.fm2@a4qI58O0.73%new
8Win32.Vbs.VWI0.67%new
9Trojan.Generic.79520440.64%new
10Win32.Ramnit0.64%+0.23%
11Trojan.GenericKD.21068960.59%new
12Trojan.GenericKD.26272390.59%-0.35%
13Jerusalem.1808.YA0.50%new
14Win32.Sality.30.34%-0.39%
15JS:Trojan.Script.CQE0.31%new
16Gen:Variant.FakeAV.1200.29%new
17Gen:Variant.Zusy.1599100.28%new
18Trojan.Rajbot.Gen.10.28%new
19Trojan.VBS.UDE0.27%new
20Cookie.DoubleClick0.27%+0.02%

The Top 20 malicious programs blocked on PCs

Malware Prevalence Table ñ October 2015

The table below ranks the most prevalent families seen by Malware Lab's analysis systems in October.

PositionAd-Aware detection% of all threatsChange in ranking
1Gen:Variant.Adware.Mikey.2419317.94%new
2Gen:Variant.Buzy.2985.32%new
3Gen:Variant.Adware.Jatif.2942.71%+0.94%
4Adware.BrowseFox.EK2.46%new
5Gen:Variant.Adware.MPlug.52.17%+1.09%
6Gen:Variant.Adware.Kazy.6181042.11%+0.33%
7Gen:Variant.Adware.Netfilter.21.97%new
8Gen:Variant.Adware.Mikey.210841.48%-0.35%
9Adware.BrowseFox.CV1.44%-0.17%
10Adware.Linkury.BD1.34%-0.27%
11Trojan.Ranapama.EZ1.34%new
12Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.2430801.13%-1.04%
13Gen:Heur.MSIL.Androm.31.04%-0.01%
14Gen:Variant.Adware.Kazy.6186041.04%new
15Gen:Variant.Adware.Mikey.177551.00%-1.16%
16Gen:Variant.Adware.ConvertAd.160.83%new
17Gen:Variant.Adware.MultiPlug.180.67%-0.97%
18Adware.BrowseFox.DO0.62%new
19Adware.BrowseFox.BN0.61%new
20Gen:Variant.Adware.Crossrider.20.59%new

New malicious programs entered the Top 20

Top20 Potentially Unwanted Programs

Below are the Top 20 Potentially Unwanted Programs blocked by Ad-Aware. These are advertising software, browser toolbars, search engines and other programs which change browser start pages and other system settings.

PositionAd-Aware detection% of all threatsChange in ranking
1Gen:Adware.BrowseFox.110.44%new
2Adware.JS.Crossrider.B4.37%-1.15%
3Adware.Agent.PSO2.56%-0.83%
4Adware.Eorezo.BZ2.30%-1.41%
5Application.Generic.12654781.69%new
6Adware.Agent.PYY1.66%new
7Adware.SwiftBrowse.CH1.65%-0.03%
8Adware.JS.Crossrider.E1.56%-0.34%
9Adware.JS.Agent.AM1.45%-0.24%
10Adware.Goopdate.D1.28%-0.09%
11Gen:Application.Parj.11.28%+0.35%
12Adware.BrowseFox.EI0.99%-0.09%
13Adware.Linkury.N0.86%+0.17%
14Adware.NetFilter.X0.85%new
15Gen:Variant.Adware.Crossrider.20.84%+0.22%
16Gen:Application.Imonetize.20.84%new
17Adware.ConvertAd.Q0.82%+0.10%
18Adware.JS.Agent.AN0.75%+0.14%
19Gen:Variant.Adware.ConvertAd.160.75%new
20Adware.Agent.POG0.74%+0.14%

Top20 PUPs detected on user PCs

Operating Systems

Infections by OS

Geographic Location

Infections by country of origin

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