1.200.000 ordinadors infectats
AVG Research Discovers 1.2 Million Computers Infected by Cybercriminals Using Eleonore Exploits Toolkit Sun JVM and Adobe Acrobat Reader Vulnerabilities Top List with Infection Rates of 36 percent AVG Technologies, makers of the world’s most popular free anti-virus software, today announced that AVG’s Web security research team has discovered a network of 1.2 million malware-infected computers controlled by cybercriminals who were using the Eleonore exploit toolkit – a commercial attack software enabling cybercriminals to infect and monitor compromised PCs. The two-month-long study by AVG Research researched 165 Eleonore toolkits in use by cybercriminals and concluded that those using the Eleonore exploit toolkit were experiencing a 10 percent success rate in infecting the more than 12 million users visiting their compromised web pages. All 165 domains experienced high volumes of traffic which the cybercriminals managed to compromise. The research was built using AVG Li...