p2p news / p2pnet: October was the first month that p2p attacks increased while IM viruses decreased, revealing a new trend in hacker attack methods, says a report.

There were 22 new attacks in October on p2p networks, a 19% increase over last month, but there was a slight decrease in IM attacks, with 19 threats spreading over public IM networks in October, says Akonix.

"The October report tracked several new IM viruses, in addition to multiple variants of existing attacks," it states, going on:

"Among the new viruses were Anixma, MSNOpt and Sdbot. Sdbot is of interest because October marked the first time it appeared over IM, typically it is seen only on IRC. In addition, one major public IM network had IM attacks increase by more than three times what it experienced in previous months this year, making it the network of choice for IM attacks for the month of October."

It’s, "just a matter of time before we see an IM or P2P attack that will bring down entire networks,” predicts company marketing vp Don Montgomery.

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See:-
Akonix – Increase in P2P security attacks from September to October, October 31, 2005

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