Rise of the ‘legit’ malware sites
Posted by Ryan Naraine @ 12:51 pm
ZDnet

75% of malicious sites are ‘legit’. About 75 percent of all Web sites serving up malicious code are legitimate sites that have been hacked/compromised, according to a new report from WebSense.
This number validates statistics from ScanSafe showing a dramatic rise in ‘good’ sites being being used as a conduit for drive-by malware downloads and other social engineering attacks.

Even more worrisome, the WebSense report says that 60 percent of the top 100 most popular Web sites have either hosted or been involved in malicious activity in the first half of 2008.

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