China Hosts 44.8% of The World’s Malware-infected Websites
Posted by chinaview on September 5, 2007
According to a report released Monday by antivirus company Sophos, China– including Hong Kong– hosted 44.8 percent of the world’s infected sites in August. The U.S. ranked a distant second, hosting 20.8 percent of sites that contain malicious code, reported by CNET News.com
Some new spam tricks revealed by Sophos on its website:
Spammers continue to find new and more devious ways to evade detection. Recent tricks include using attachments such as PDFs. These can contain clickable links, which makes this file format particularly attractive to spammers as links to malicious URLs can be included.
The links in spam email lure users to compromised webpages, where spyware and other malware is automatically installed on the users’ computers.
Once infected, compromised computers can be used to steal confidential data and trade secrets or to spam out millions of emails. In June, SophosLabs™ identified nearly 30,000 new malicious webpages daily.
“Sophos security threat report: Update July 2007” can be downloaded from this page: Trends in malware threats
