66% of new trojans are designed to steal money
Sixty-six percent of the new Trojans that emerged in the first quarter of 2007 were designed for financial gain. "Trojans help their authors make a financial profit in many different ways: from stealing bank passwords to modifying the server's DNS to redirect users to spoofed websites. In fact, Trojans are currently the most widely used malware, due to their flexibility to carry out these types of crimes," explains Luis Corrons, Technical Director of PandaLabs.
The new Trojans detected by PandaLabs in the first quarter belonged to almost 700 different families, and represented seventy-four percent of the new malware detected during this period. The most frequently detected Trojan family was the downloader family, representing forty two percent of the total.
