Updated Security Threat Report from SophosLabs
Today we published our updated threat report which provides a summary of the threat landscape over the past 6 months.
As we have documented on this blog over the past few months, the shift in malware has been very much towards web-based threats. We are currently adding over 29,000 new webpages every day. 80% of them are compromised sites, perfectly legitmate in their content, other than the fact they have been hacked and are now hosting malware.
To put this into perspective, we took a closer look at some of the sites hosted in the UK that were found to be infected yesterday.
These included :
*A dog breeder website with a forum allowing people to upload their dog-related thoughts and pictures - Infected with Mal/IFrame
*A Suffolk-based antique store infected with a virus that is a few years old now, suggesting that there is no anti-virus running on the web server
*An interactive forum for fans of a popular British TV comedy show infected with Mal/IFrame
*A Bristol-based artist selling art and announcing exhibitions is infected with Mal/IFrame
*A photo website in Cumbria infected with Mal/ObfJS
This small selection shows that productivity filtering of URLs won’t necessarily help protect against web based threats and it is becoming increasingly crucial that anyone hosting a website must ensure that it is kept up to date with the latest security patches and regularly scanned for malware.
Posted on July 25th, 2007 by Mark Harris, VP of SophosLabsFiled under: General
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