ESET releases August 2013 Threat Report for India

During the month of August 2013, ESET has conducted a worldwide survey across 100 million users with the most identified malware; INF/Autorun.gen and Win32/Adware.Yonto.A. According to the August 2013 threat report for India, it has been revealed that Win32/Ramnit.F has shrunk and Win32/Ramnit.F has increased as compared to July 2013 threat report. The new malware Win32/Adware.Yontoo.A has started to lead its way to stand second.

INF/Autorun.gen - a generic detection for an "autorun.inf" file created by malware and it can spread through spam, email attachments, malicious websites, unsafe downloads and many other ways.

Win32/Adware.Yonto.A  is an adware application designed for delivery of unsolicited advertisements and the file is run-time compressed using NSIS. Win32/Ramnit.A steals sensitive information such as saved banking and FTP credentials and browser cookies. The malware may also open a backdoor to await instructions from a remote attacker