April 2013 virus activity review from Doctor Web

IT security experts will remember April 2013 for several remarkable events. At the beginning of the month, Doctor Web's analysts hijacked a rapidly growing botnet comprised of computers infected with BackDoor.Bulknet.739. The middle of April saw the discovery of a new Trojan of the most common family – Trojan.Mayachok– and an upsurge of spam containing subject matter related to the terrorist acts that occurred in Boston. It was a rough time for handhelds More info >>>

Latest update: 2013-05-22 02:20:52 MSK | Records in virus base: 4042441 | Download update

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