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Threat Report Dec 28, 2011

FortiGuard Threat Report

Supplemental data is available for all categories shown in the report. Simply click on any detection link to display corresponding regional and daily detections. You may view rankings for the supported regions below by clicking on the region of choice. For further information on ranking, please refer to the notes section.

Threat Recap - The Past 2 WeeksGo to 6-Hour Threat MonitorReport Archive


Below is a summary of security related events that occurred between December 14, 2011 and December 28, 2011.

  • 2012 Threat Predictions

    Looking back on 2011, FortiGuard Labs saw a number of landmark developments in the world of network security. Huge botnets such as DNS Changer and Coreflood were permanently taken off line, 64-bit rootkits advanced (TDSS), source code was leaked for the Zeus and SpyEye botnets , and Anonymous hacktivists raised their profile by taking down major banks offline and threatening to go after a critical infrastructure. [..more]

  • Android/Foncy emanating and propagating in France

    It doesn’t happen that often altogether that mobile malware specifically come from France and propagate in France. It however seems to be the case this time for an Android malware named Foncy – not that there should be any national pride in creating malware. [..more]

  • Threat Quadrant 1

    Spammer Data (Vol.)Spam Rate (%)Spam & Web Report 2

    FortiGuard Summary3

    Coverage

    Microsoft & Adobe Coverage by CVE Severity 4

    Vendor NameTotalCriticalImportantModerateLow
    Adobe21100

    Coverage - AntiVirus / Intrusion Prevention

    Service# Added# Modified# Service UpdatesDB Range
    Antivirus1319791383485314.974 - 15.026
    Applications & Botnets155053.122 - 3.126
    IPS10033053.122 - 3.126

    Coverage - AntiSpam / Web Filtering

    Service# Added# Modified# Service UpdatesDB Range
    AS Checksums2673411777195969.43505 - 69.45463
    AS IP Reputation326972957340536127595.38440 - 95.39714
    AS URI's134629170010198682.43347 - 82.45332
    Webfiltering9123382445825365213.56221 - 13.56872

    Zero-Day Vulnerability Research

    There are 32 outstanding vulnerabilities discovered by FortiGuard Labs which still remain in a zero-day state as of this report. Below is a break-down by age of these vulnerabilities since discovery.

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    Solutions

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    These services enable protection against threats on both application and network layers. FortiGuard Services are continuously updated, which enables Fortinet to deliver a combination of multi-layered security intelligence and true zero-day protection from new and emerging threats.These updates are delivered to all FortiGate, FortiMail and FortiClient products.

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