ESET report reveals top 7 Malware targeted India in JFM 2014

ESET has reported top 7 malware targeted India during JFM 2014. ESET researchers are continuously studying on all the activities of new threats and variants on a daily basis. ESET is also preparing prevalence maps of these threats for every country every day. According to them, Win32/Bundpil.BO is the new threat variant which has entered India and is spreading via removable media by 4% now.

Among all the top threats, INF/Autorun is the most identified malware among Indian users. It is generic detection of the AUTORUN.INF configuration file created by malware. The AUTORUN.INF file contains the path to the malware executable. This file is usually dropped into the root folder of available drives in an attempt to autorun a malware executable when the infected drive is mounted. The AUTORUN.INF file(s) may have the System (S) and Hidden (H) attributes present in attempt to hide the file in Windows Explorer.

According to ESET, threats are targeting ESET users in a similar way with light variance and blocked new threats in a big way.

Win32/Bundpil.BO is the threat variant of Bundpil which was detected in July 2013. This variant attacked Indian ESET users in February 2014. Bundpil has 4.92% of World Activity Peak and it has more affect in Afghanistan and Mangolia with more than 25% attack activity.
It spreads via removable media. The worm contains an URL address, and it tries to download several files from the address. The files are then executed and the HTTP protocol is used. The worm may delete the folders like *.exe, *.vbs, *.pif, *.cmd, *Backup.