Lavasoft Security Bulletin - August 2015: Top Threats
Top 20 Blocked Malware
Position | Ad-Aware detection | % of all threats | Change in ranking |
1 | Trojan.GenericKD.2371232 | 15.16% | new |
2 | Trojan.GenericKD.2388905 | 10.46% | new |
3 | Trojan.GenericKD.2242638 | 5.16% | new |
4 | Win32.Ramnit | 2.91% | -4.97% |
5 | Gen:Variant.Buzy.298 | 2.29% | -17.87% |
6 | Win32.Sality.3 | 2.28% | -1.77% |
7 | Trojan.LNK.Gen | 1.99% | -0.06% |
8 | Trojan.HTML.Ramnit.A | 1.82% | -2.51% |
9 | Gen:Variant.Zusy.133734 | 1.65% | new |
10 | Trojan.Agent.BLJD | 1.20% | new |
11 | Win32.Virtob.Gen.12 | 1.00% | -1.04% |
12 | Gen:Variant.Barys.1446 | 0.95% | new |
13 | Win32.Worm.Nimda.O | 0.95% | new |
14 | Trojan.Generic.7365443 | 0.78% | new |
15 | Trojan.GenericKD.2512006 | 0.61% | +0.21% |
16 | Win32.Runouce.B@mm | 0.52% | new |
17 | Trojan.GenericKD.2543609 | 0.51% | new |
18 | Gen:Variant.Zusy.147532 | 0.43% | new |
19 | Trojan.GenericKD.2627239 | 0.42% | new |
20 | Win32.Ramnit.N | 0.42% | -7.46% |
The Top 20 malicious programs blocked on PCs
Malware Prevalence Table August 2015
The table below ranks the most prevalent families seen by Malware Lab's analysis systems in August.
Position | Ad-Aware detection | % of all threats | Change in ranking |
1 | Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.52 | 24.34% | new |
2 | Gen:Variant.Adware.Mikey.15677 | 16.46% | +15.17% |
3 | Gen:Variant.Adware.Kazy.566748 | 5.39% | +4.32% |
4 | Gen:Variant.Adware.MPlug.51 | 4.83% | -1.82% |
5 | Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.197348 | 4.20% | +3.01% |
6 | Gen:Variant.Adware.MPLug.50 | 4.02% | +0.02% |
7 | Gen:Variant.Adware.Kazy.622347 | 3.64% | -0.04% |
8 | Gen:Variant.Adware.Kazy.618104 | 2.76% | +0.51% |
9 | Gen:Variant.Adware.Jatif.294 | 2.43% | new |
10 | Gen:Variant.Adware.MPLug.35 | 2.32% | -0.07% |
11 | Adware.BrowseFox.CV | 2.26% | +1.50% |
12 | Gen:Heur.MSIL.Androm.3 | 1.90% | +0.73% |
13 | Gen:Variant.Adware.Netfilter.2 | 1.89% | new |
14 | Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.188636 | 1.59% | new |
15 | Gen:Variant.Adware.Mplug.44 | 1.55% | +0.12% |
16 | Gen:Variant.Adware.MPlug.38 | 1.33% | +0.08% |
17 | Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.190520 | 1.23% | new |
18 | Gen:Variant.Adware.Kazy.618604 | 1.10% | new |
19 | Gen:Variant.Adware.Mplug.36 | 1.09% | -0.06% |
20 | Gen:Variant.Adware.MPlug.7 | 1.05% | new |
New malicious programs entered the Top 20
Top20 Potentially Unwanted Programs
Below are the Top 20 Potentially Unwanted Programs blocked by Ad-Aware on user PCs. These are advertising software, browser toolbars, search engines and other programs which change browser start pages and other system settings.
Position | Ad-Aware detection | % of all threats | Change in ranking |
1 | Adware.JS.Crossrider.B | 3.84% | -1.10% |
2 | Adware.Agent.PSO | 3.36% | +2.51% |
3 | Gen:Variant.Adware.Jatif.127 | 3.14% | new |
4 | Adware.Goopdate.D | 2.93% | new |
5 | Adware.Eorezo.BZ | 2.57% | -2.49% |
6 | Adware.SwiftBrowse.CH | 2.26% | -0.14% |
7 | Adware.Linkey.B | 1.84% | +0.64% |
8 | Adware.Mplug.LO | 1.50% | new |
9 | Adware.JS.Agent.AM | 1.41% | -0.40% |
10 | Adware.Agent.PJT | 1.21% | new |
11 | Gen:Application.Parj.1 | 1.05% | +0.01% |
12 | Application.Generic.1265478 | 1.03% | +0.06% |
13 | Gen:Variant.Application.Jatif.390 | 0.93% | -0.46% |
14 | Adware.SwiftBrowse.CR | 0.87% | -0.06% |
15 | Adware.BrowseFox.BH | 0.83% | new |
16 | Adware.Adload.M | 0.81% | -1.06% |
17 | Adware.BrowseFox.AU | 0.81% | new |
18 | Gen:Variant.Adware.Kazy.631110 | 0.78% | new |
19 | Adware.JS.Agent.AN | 0.75% | -0.48% |
20 | Adware.JS.Crossrider.D | 0.74% | new |
Top20 PUPs detected on user PCs
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