Kaspersky Lab has released its latest Malware Evolution report, covering the period between June and September 2006 and, as usual, it makes for interesting reading.
Alexander Gostev, Senior Virus Analyst, Kaspersky Lab comments that the first six months of 2006 was “notable for the complexity of the technologies which antivirus companies had to deal with, a large number of new proof of concept programs, and the ever increasing interest shown by hackers in Microsoft Office.”
While there was no great exploit epidemic during this latest quarter, nor any new proof of concept viruses for that matter, or even much activity on the virus front at all that is not to say it has been a dull three months from the perspective of the security professional. Of most interest to me has been the continuing unwanted attention paid to the MS Office suite of applications, or perhaps to be more precise the fact that nothing has really changed from the first six months of the year in this regard.