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Mumbai: eScan a leading Anti-Virus solution provider has conducted an in-depth research and come up with a comprehensive report based on malware URLs collected for the first half of the year 2011.
This report by the world's leading Anti-Virus solutions provider provides a representation of the growth in malware infected URLs in a span of just 6 months. Some of the interesting aspects found by the research team while formulating this report were that the domains mentioned were found to be infected at the time of report creation. According to the report, almost 80% of content available on the web is malicious. SEO poisoning has risen to such an extent that the chances of clicking an infected link has significantly raised in the last year, says the report by eScan lab.
The report highlights on the malware threats that dominated hugely in the last six months, thereby becoming a huge threat to the IT infrastructure. It clearly specifies on the social networking sites which have been used as a platform to spread malware and the merging of the Zeus source code with the SpyEye botnet which brought in a new breed of threats that effected most banking and online transactions. It has also been detected that the SpyEye botnet is capable of thriving on over 150 modules - such as USB drives, Instant Messengers and various other browser certificates.
[BWI]