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One Million Sites Infected With Malware In Q2
Trailrunner7 writes "More than one million Web domains were infected with malicious code in the second quarter of 2010 — around one percent of all active Web domains, according to new data. The number of infected domains was extrapolated from data gained through a sample scan of what Dasient describes as 'millions of Web sites,' as well as from customer deployments. It suggests that compromises of Web sites are on the rise, as attackers look to push out malicious programs through so-called drive by download attacks."
A domain is a node in the DNS namespace. How does that get infected?
If a web server hosts 20 domains, and is infected, does that count as 20 infections?
"Web site", "domain" and "host" are not interchangeable.
The only Malware we were infected by in Q2 was McAfee. It decided a few critical systems files were viruses and shut us down for hours. Stupid Malware creators.
I don't need a million points of light, just two points of multi-mode fiber and a 10 Gig-E router.
it just means the malware authors have grown up and want a paycheck.
It used to be that half the viruses were showy things written by amatures who wanted to fuck around.
most of the rest were trying to cash in on ad revenue from popups.
Now there's less money in popups(most of the big ad providers don't like being associated with malware) so the malware just sits quietly trying to steal your credit card number.
The more stealthy the more successful.