Google Blogger "Hosts 2% of World's Malware"

Barence writes "Google's Blogger service is responsible for 2% of the world's malware hosted on the Web, according to a new report from security firm Sophos. The company claims hackers are setting up pages on the free blogging service to host malicious code, or simply posting links to infected websites in other bloggers' comments. 'Blogger accounts for around 2% of malware,' according to Sophos's senior technology consultant, Graham Cluley. 'It's head and shoulders above the rest [of the blogging services].'" Sophos believes that Blogger is favored because, being part of Google, it gets spidered early and often.

Comments

Re:Two percent is newsworthy?

[Anonymous Coward]

Furthermore,

or simply posting links to infected websites in other bloggers' comments

Does that mean that slashdot contains 76% of the world's goatse, simply because trolls post links to other servers hosting it on this site?

Perhaps Microsoft has 18.9% of the worlds child porn because it can be found by using their Windows Live search engine?

Googles name

[b4thyme]

Part of it is probably google's good name that is attractive to malware hosts. As google "does no evil", people trust them. How could malware end up on a site hosted by a service that does no evil?

people think:
google = good
malware = evil
malware != google

profit for malware distributors!

Hypocrisy

[Eric Smith]

On two occasions miscreants managed to inject links to malware into my site, and on each occasion Google nearly immediately started listing my site in search results as "this site may harm your computer", and no direct (clickable) link.

If Blogger is so full of malware or links to malware, why don't all the search results pointing to Blogger get the same warning and lack of link?

Way to go, PC Pro

[Cajun Hell]

Sophos says:

Blogger accounts for around 2% of malware," according to Sophos's senior technology consultant..
..
Sophos says it doesn't blame Google for the situation...

PC Pro's crack writers say:

Google's Blogger service is responsible for 2% of the world's malware hosted on the web

(Emphasis mine.) Journalism at its finest!

I blame the people who make guns easily available

[PC and Sony Fanboy]

Thats a poor argument. Take canada vs. usa - the climate is the same, most of the laws are similar... but gun control laws are drastically different, and canada has better social services.

... but canada also has a much MUCH lower incidence of gun-related crime.

do we blame the lack of social services in the states for the gun crime? Or perhaps the availability of the guns?

Re:What, no evil comments yet?

[Kugrian]

Hopefully their crawlers are advanced enough to display ads for Malware removal tools alongside the infected pages.

Not the most exploited site

[Kurrel]

I'd like to see what percentage of infections were facilitated through MySpace, but that would require omniscience just as this figure does.