New Malware Targets Financial Institutions

More than 55 percent of all new malware identified in the third quarter of this year is Trojan, according to reports PandaLabs security agency .

Panda Security said most of the banking trojan designed to trick web users to navigate a fake financial sites, so cyber criminals can steal login details and passwords.

The use of email in the spread of malware, once the most preferred method, it actually decreased. Vice versa cybercriminals that resulted in infection in social networking, including Clickjacing like Facebook is that now most often used.

Launched by PC World, on Monday (4/10/2010), Panda also says 95 percent of all emails received during the third quarter of this is spam, and 50 percent of spam was sent from only 10 countries, including India, Brazil and Russia.

The security firm also said that during the last three months has a number of attacks on Google's Android phones, which can be the beginning of a wave of threats smartphones targeting .

"We are also starting to see a legitimate Android application compressed self-extracting files, which are designed to infect when the application was extracted. In other words, Android applications that are used as bait to infect the computer with self-extracting files," said PandaLabs.