Worms, VoIP attacks are main threats to internet in Poland

The Zeus trojan, the Stuxnet worm and attacks on Voice-over-IP services were the most important threats to Polish internet users in 2010, according to an annual report by Cert Polska, operating in the framework of Polish operator NASK. Experts received over 12 million automated submissions concerning the Polish networks in 2010. In 2010, most of the incidents reported to Cert Polska concerned computer fraud (36.5 percent), of which a large amount were related to identity theft. The experts analysed, among others, the activity of Zeus, a malicious application that affected customers of many Polish banks. The Zeus malware is designed to spy users' activity, collect confidential data and send them from an infected computer to command & control servers. Other incidents examined by Cert Polska team are the attacks on the VoIP services, which are gaining popularity among cybercriminals. The authors of the report also examined important incidents concerning the world-wide network security, namely the Stuxnet worm, the first real threat to industrial systems, and actions of the Anonymous group. Besides the analysis of the incidents reported to Cert Polska team in 2010, the publication also includes the report of the Arakis system that aims to create an early warning and information system concerning novel network threats. The most interesting cases observed by the system in 2010 are the detection of the DDoS attacks on Facebook servers and the observation of the network spider HuaweiSymantecSpider.