April 2012 Virus Survey

[TheKid7]

April 2012 Virus Survey: the first ever large-scale botnet for the Mac OS X, the millionth botnet for Windows and the invasion of Trojan coders in Europe:

Users will remember April 2012 as the most intense month in terms of events related to information security threats. In the early month, the Doctor Web experts discovered the first ever large-scale botnet consisting of computers running the Mac OS X operating system. A little later, Doctor Web announced that it took control over the Win32.Rmnet.12 botnet, which incorporated more than one million infected computers. In the second half of April, the invasion of Trojan encoders began that first concerned Western Europe inhabitants, and later on — users around the world. These and other significant April events will be reviewed in this survey.

http://news.drweb.com/?i=2415&c=5&lng=en&p=0

[tomazyk]

Yes, in terms of security threats, April was really intense. I don't remember when was the last time that our company had so many calls regarding infections.

[zfactor]

same here we had A LOT of calls in april and even first week of may