MessageLabs Intelligence (www.messagelabs.com), the messaging and web security arm of Symantec, recently reported on the growing menace in web hosting and business security, in the form of the Bredolab Trojan, which was observed to increase in volume and virulence in the past few months alone.

MessageLabs says spam-related attacks has reached a record-high in October, and account for nearly 5.6 percent of all daily detected malware. To date, about 3.6 billion Bredolab Trojans are circulating in emails everyday.

The Bredolab Trojan is being sent by the Cutwail botnet, arriving in the form of zip file email attachments with innocent-seeming subjects. Opening the attachment will install the Trojan and disable the security of the host system. It will then go on to download malicious content to further infiltrate the host system with malware and spyware. The Trojan is often undetected, and allows the Cutwail botnet sender to control the host machine, according to Symantec MessageLabs Intelligence senior analyst Paul Wood.

MessageLabs is a market leader in web security, servicing 21,000 clients in 100 countries, and providing a range of services for the protection, control, encryption and archival of electronic communications.

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