BitDefender Unveils List of Top 10 Malware for March 2007

Aside from Iframe vulnerability exploits being used in a host of new malware in March, the most notable new entry to BitDefender’s top ten malware list is Win32.Sality.M, a highly-dangerous polymorphic virus which has been actively seeded in the past weeks, most notably using another virus, the venerable Bagle mass mailer, as a vector. BitDefender will continue to monitor the Win32.Sality.M virus in April to determine the potential wide-spread damage.

BitDefender’s March top ten malware list include:
1. Trojan.Peed.Gen
2. BehavesLike:Trojan.Downloader
3. Win32.Netsky.P@mm
4. Exploit.Iframe.Vulnerability.B
5. Exploit.Iframe.Vulnerability
6. Win32.Bagle.HM@mm
7. Win32.Nyxem.E@mm
8. Win32.Sality.M
9. Win32.NetSky.D@mm
10. Trojan.ASXLoad.A

“The trend toward consolidation in virus varieties in the wild will continue. This month's top ten list covers a whopping 60 percent of all viruses seen in circulation. We may be seeing the Internet version of natural selection in action, with a few successful species displacing the less successful ones on a massive scale” declared Viorel Canja for BitDefender.

A synthetic report on the current malware situation can always be found at:
http://www.bitdefender.com/site/VirusInfo/realTimeReporting/