Increasingly Complex Web Threats Dominate Malware Attacks

The threats are documented in Sophos Security Threat Report Mid-Year 2011. Detailing new threats such as search engine poisoning called Black Hat SEO, threatening business of all sizes. Cybercriminals manipulate search results on Google and Yahoo! to redirect web searchers and fool them to malicious pages.

IT security and data protection firm Sophos reports a new and unique malware threat is witnessed almost every half-second. So far this year, Sophos has been busy identifying an average of 150,000 malware cases every day. If you do your math that breaks down to one unique malware file spawned every half-second, a 60 percent increase from the prior year.

Also added to the report are 19,000 malicious website addresses being found daily, and 80 percent of those sites being legitimate ones that had been hacked or compromised.

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