Cyberoam, a analysis of Elitecore Technologies and the innovator of identity-based Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions, today appear the Q3 2009 Internet threats trend report, able in accord with its partner, Commtouch. Among the top stories, Sourceforge.net, a accepted download website for accessible antecedent software, saw a seek engine spam advance in its wiki subdomain, with keywords and entering links arch to a specific chicanery site.
The aloft adventure could accept as calmly complex a malware hosting site, which puts the consumers of user generated agreeable such as wikis at huge accident from threats area spammers adumbrate inappropriate agreeable abysmal central the website URL while accompanying application acclaimed domains/subdomains for accepting a college page rank.
Says Abhilash Sonwane, VP, Product Management, Cyberoam, “The admeasurement of accessible antecedent user generated agreeable such as wikis has created new opportunities for spammers. Since, these projects run on accord and assurance a allotment of a community, seek engine bombers can abusage the accessible ambiance to ample up wiki-like pages with their own business promotional links and use accounted domains/subdomains to rank their page higher. The attendance of malware hosting sites alone aggravates the problem.”
Also, in the report, the accepted banking crisis and the agitation about bloom affliction ameliorate in the US accept fabricated Americans an easier ambition for 419 scammers. One of the added artistic examples apparent by Cyberoam was in an caricatural bulletin that appeared to be from the “F.B.I.” answer to the almsman that he or she has been targeted for a 419 betray and they accept recourse to quick retrieval of funds. Another email accustomed artificial bargain bloom allowance advantage for recipients with a alive unsubscribe hotlink for deception.
Another above highlight of the address was apropos higher-than-average spam levels which attempt up to an astonishingly top 97% in July. Pharmacy spam continues to be at top atom area spammers are application avant-garde means to bypass agreeable and animal filters, such as masquerading their spam through Facebook messages. There was aswell an beginning of Google Spreadsheet spam, area a biologic spammer acclimated Google Spreadsheets for URL redirection, seeing that such applications are about trusted by anti-spam filters.
For the 2nd division in a row, Cyberoam saw spikes in email-borne bacilli not bent by above anti-virus engines. Out of these, two accurate bacilli Mal-Bredo A and Mal-Behav 340 saw administration of over 10,000 audible variants. Sites in the “Health and Medicine” and “Sex Education” chic topped the account of sites manipulated by phishing schemes. Brazil continues to abide the crank hotspot accounting for about 19.7% of all-around crank activity.
Cyberoam uses the Commtouch RPDTM technology to appraisal ample volumes of Internet cartage in real-time. Unlike acceptable spam filters, it does not await on email content, so it is able to ascertain spam in any accent and in every bulletin architecture (including images, HTML, etc.), non-English characters, individual and bifold byte, etc. Its accent and agreeable agnostic attributes enables it to accommodate able spam blocking capabilities. Cyberoam incorporates this technology aural its different identity-based UTM appliances, which arrange user identity-based functionality above all of its features. A abandonment from acceptable IP address-dependent solutions, Cyberoam determines absolutely who is accomplishing what in the network, accouterment IT managers with stronger action ascendancy and clearer afterimage of activity.
About Cyberoam
Cyberoam Identity-based UTM accessories action absolute aegis adjoin absolute and arising Internet threats, including viruses, worms, Trojans, spyware, phishing, pharming and more. Cyberoam delivers the complete ambit of aegis appearance such as stateful analysis firewall, VPN, aperture anti-virus, aperture anti-malware, aperture anti-spam, advance blockage system, agreeable clarification in accession to bandwidth administration and assorted hotlink administration over a individual platform. Cyberoam is certified by the West Coast Labs with CheckMark UTM Level 5 Certification, ICSA Lab, an absolute analysis of Verizon Business, and the Virtual Private Network Consortium. Cyberoam has accustomed the 2008 Emerging Vendor of the Year accolade by Frost & Sullivan, 2007 Global Excellence Awards for Integrated Security Appliance, Security Solution for Education and Unified Security, the 2007 Tomorrow’s Technology Today Award for Unified Security was rated Positive by Gartner in its Marketscope for SMB multi-function firewalls. Cyberoam has offices in the Woburn, MA, USA and India. For added information, amuse appointment www.cyberoam.com
About Elitecore Technologies Limited
Elitecore Technologies Limited is the all-around provider of Cyberoam UTM appliances. Elitecore’s added capacity cover CRESTEL Convergent Billing Solution that meets the voice, data, video announcement and chump affliction requirements of Tier-1 account providers and 24online Billing and Bandwidth Management Solution for hotels, hotspots and Internet account providers. Elitecore has a able R&D abject and abutment centermost in India; it has abiding a advantageous advance amount of over 75 % back inception. For added information, amuse appointment www.elitecore.com
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