The USA are in the lead by quantity of websites with malware
Posted: December 22nd, 2008 | Tags: Internet, Malware |Sophos company has published the total report with results of the analysis of a situation with safety in the Internet in 2008.
Today, most of sites with malicious software — 37 % — are hosted on the American servers. The second place in the rating is China with 27,7 % of potentially dangerous web pages. Russia takes 9,1 % from total of sites with malware and closes a three of the antileaders.
Further in decreasing order of number of harmful resources follow: Germany (2,3 %), South Korea (2,1 %), Ukraine (1,8 %), Great Britain (1,7 %), Turkey (1,5 %), the Czech Republic (1,3 %) and Thailand (1,2 %). The least dangerous is Singapore — 0,3 %.
Sophos company also notices that in leaving year the United States were the leader in amount of distributed spam. Today through computers located in the USA 17,5 % of all spams-letters are dispatched. Some reduction of volumes of a spam has been noted in the end of autumn in connection with closing of American hosting-provider McColo on which resources the command centres of several of the largest botnets worked. According to the research, frauds more and more often attack users of social networks, and the quantity of letters with harmful investments for a year has grown five times. At the same time in 2008 demountable carriers became one of the basic tools of distribution of malicious programs.
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