Fortinet® - the pioneer and leading provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions - has today announced the top 10 most reported high-risk threats for June 2008, and a major upgrade to their FortiGuard online resource centre. Gaming related threats were the most active malware family in June 2008, making up more than 35 percent of total threats.

Charles Cote, Regional Director for Australia and New Zealand commented, "Many Australian and New Zealand businesses are looking for ways to simplify complexity, and reduce the cost of running their IT security systems. Fortinet's unified threat management appliances allow businesses to automatically protect themselves from the latest threats, with updates pushed out from our FortiGuard service. This latest upgrade to our FortiGuard service will help our customers to further reduce the amount of time and effort needed to keep their businesses safe."

The FortiGuard Center (www.fortiguardcenter.com) is Fortinet's threat update and security research hub, where visitors and customers can find timely threat and vulnerability information, as well as advisories, trend reports, and deep threat analysis. The FortiGuard Center will now include:

* Enhanced Vulnerability Coverage, including a summary of new and recently modified vulnerabilities, as well as details of threat activity. This additional level of information will allow customers to fine tune security settings, and focus on active threats

* IPS Service Update History - A historical listing of all modifications in the Intrusion Prevention System package

* Antivirus Top Threats - Top threats in virus/spyware, mobile phone, PDA, and Instant Messaging (IM) threats. Phishing threats will now be included in the updated antivirus page

* Mobile Threat Description Index - A listing of the current FortiGuard antivirus coverage of mobile threats

Worldwide Top Ten Individual Threats for June 2008 #1 W32/Netsky!similar 9.02%, #2 W32/OnlineGames!tr 7.60%, #3 W32/Virut.A 5.84%, #4 W32/OnLineGames.fam!tr.pws 5.27%, #5 HTML/Iframe_CID!exploit 4.06%, #6 W32/Agent.LPV!tr 3.28%, #7 Adware/Vapsup 3.26%, #8 HTML/Iframe.DN!tr.dldr 2.92%, #9 W32/MyTob.FR@mm 2.87%, #10 W32/Grew.A!worm 2.31%.

Worldwide Top Five Families for June 2008 #1 OnlineGames 35.4%, #2 Netsky 15.3%, #3 MyTob 9.8%, #4 Virut 6.3%, #5 Grew 2.3%.

After a slightly fall in activity in May, online gaming related threats rebounded in June. Concentrated attacks occurred in China (36.5%), Taiwan (31.1%), Turkey (15.4%), the U.S. (7.4%), and Japan (4.3%).

"It's no surprise to see malicious online gaming activity circle the globe to cast a bigger net for financial gain," said Derek Manky, security researcher for Fortinet. "With the online gaming market thriving with consumers, malicious activity will very likely continue for some time in this emerging sector as it forms a viable target."

As individual threats, the most active online gaming Trojans took the second and fourth positions on Fortinet's global list of Top Ten threats. Gaming related threats were the most active malware family, making up more than 35 percent of total threats for the month.

To read the full June report, please visit: http://www.fortiguardcenter.com/reports/roundup_jun_2008.html For ongoing threat research, bookmark the FortiGuard Center (http://www.fortiguardcenter.com/) or add it to your RSS feed by going to http://www.fortinet.com/FortiGuardCenter/rss/index.html. To learn more about FortiGuard Subscription Services, visit http://www.fortinet.com/products/fortiguard.html

FortiGuard Subscription Services offer broad security solutions including antivirus, intrusion prevention, Web content filtering and anti-spam capabilities. These services enable protection against threats on both application and network layers. FortiGuard Services are continuously updated by the FortiGuard Global Security Research Team, which enables Fortinet to deliver a combination of multi-layered security intelligence and true zero-day protection from new and emerging threats. These updates are delivered to all FortiGate, FortiMail and FortiClient products.

About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com ) Fortinet is the pioneer and leading provider of ASIC-accelerated unified threat management, or UTM, security systems, which are used by enterprises and service providers to increase their security while reducing total operating costs. Fortinet solutions were built from the ground up to integrate multiple levels of security protection--including firewall, antivirus, intrusion prevention, VPN, spyware prevention and anti-spam -- designed to help customers protect against network and content level threats. Leveraging a custom ASIC and unified interface, Fortinet solutions offer advanced security functionality that scales from remote office to chassis-based solutions with integrated management and reporting. Fortinet solutions have won multiple awards around the world and are the only security products that are certified in seven programs by ICSA Labs: Firewall, Antivirus, IPSec, SSL, Network IPS, and Anti-Spyware. Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California.

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