With e-mail’s value as a malware delivery agent on the decline, writers of malicious software have boosted their efforts to infect Web sites with their nasty payloads. Thousands of malicious Web sites are created on a daily basis to steal information from unsuspecting visitors or plant insidious software on their computers without their knowledge, according to security experts interviewed by TechNewsWorld. On average, 5,000 new malicious Web sites are created daily on the Internet, estimated Ron O’Brien, a senior security analyst at Sophos.
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Net’s Malware Infection: Growing by 5,000 Sites per Day
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. May 18, 2007 04:00 AMWith e-mail’s value as a malware delivery agent on the decline, writers of malicious software have boosted their efforts to infect Web sites with their nasty payloads. Thousands of malicious Web sites are created on a daily basis to steal information from unsuspecting visitors or plant insidious software on their computers without their knowledge, according to security experts interviewed by TechNewsWorld. On average, 5,000 new malicious Web sites are created daily on the Internet, estimated Ron O’Brien, a senior security analyst at Sophos.