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Threats and Trends November 2007

The level of traffic is now at its lowest registered during 2006 and 2007. This decrease is due to attacks getting more targeted, while reconnaissance attacks are slowly vanishing. It is still VNC services that are mostly exposed, with VNC-1 (port 5901) at the top. It has been a huge decrease in the number of searches towards MS SQL this month.

Among countries of origin we now see that the US is back at the top, after having given this placement to China last month. Norway is still near the top of the list, while Mexico has had the biggest increase since last period.

Spam and worm traffic has surprisingly had an increase this period.

Focus of the month

In the focus of the month we take a closer look at the most famous cybercrime group, the Russian Business Network.