20 Dec '11 - 3 Jan '12
- New wave of Sinowal/Mebroot spreads.
- Wave of French ransoms - Trojan Ransom.
- At start of first week - Winlock/WindowsSecurity.
- FakeRean (Rogue:Win32/FakeRean), covers: XP Antispyware 2012, XP Home Security 2012.
- ZeroAccess/Sirefef rootkit.
- tracking malware links - VxVault, MDL
- kernelmode
