Monthly Archives: February 2010

The Krypt Story

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Oliver Day

About two weeks ago we noticed a huge spike of activity on AS 35908 which belongs to Krypt Technologies. If you click on the AS link you will see the actual numbers we recorded at StopBadware. 15,000 infections came out … Continue reading →

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New IP address reports

Posted on February 18, 2010 by Maxim Weinstein

A few months ago, we announced new data reports showing our aggregate numbers of reported badware sites by Autonomous System Number (ASN). Today, we are pleased to announce similar reports showing data based on IP address. The Top 50 report … Continue reading →

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Lessons from the auto-update web chat

Posted on February 10, 2010 by Maxim Weinstein

This afternoon, we hosted a productive web chat about automatic updates and their impact on user security and control. A few interesting themes emerged during the conversation: There is an important distinction to be made between updates that fix vulnerabilities … Continue reading →

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Reminder: register now for Wednesday’s web chat

Posted on February 8, 2010 by Maxim Weinstein

Don’t forget to register for Wednesday’s web chat about automatic update mechanisms and their effect on end user security and control. More information about the topic and how to register can be found in the original blog post.

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Prevalence in web infections

Posted on February 1, 2010 by Oliver Day

I’ve been very interested in applying epidemiology to the world of malware lately. Prevalence is quite simply the number of infected in a given population at a specific time. More specifically it is a ratio of infected over the number … Continue reading →

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