ZeroAccess infects 2.2 million

2012-11-01

Helen Martin

Virus Bulletin, UK

Editor: Helen Martin

Abstract

2.2 million home networks infected with ZeroAccess worldwide.

A quarterly report from security firm Kindsight has revealed that one in 125 North American home networks were infected with the ZeroAccess rootkit in the last quarter, and that, worldwide, 2.2 million home networks were affected.

Overall, 13% of home networks in North America suffered a malware infection (down from 14% in the second quarter), with 6.5% being infected with what the company classed as ‘high-level’ threats, such as bots, rootkits and banking trojans.

The report also noted growth in mobile malware – with mobile adware accounting for 90% of the 3+% infection rate among mobile devices.

The full report is available to download from https://www.kindsight.net/sites/default/files/Kindsight_Security_Labs-Q312_Malware_Report-final.pdf.

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