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U.S. leads in terms of the number of sites with malware – Security – Cybercrime

company Sophos has published the final results of the analysis of the security situation in the World Network in 2008.

Reported , in the past year, most sites with malicious software – 37% – located on U.S. servers. Second place in the ranking Sophos took China, which accounted for 27.7% of potentially dangerous Web pages. Closes three antiliderov Russia with 9.1% of the total number of sites with malicious software. Next, in descending order of number of malicious resources in the list followed by Sophos Germany (2.3%), South Korea (2.1%), Ukraine (1.8%), Britain (1.7%), Turkey (1,5% ), Czech Republic (1.3%) and Thailand (1.2%). The least dangerous sites in Singapore – 0,3%.

company Sophos also notes that in the past year, the United States leading in the volume and distribution of spam. Today, through computers in the U.S. sent to 17,5% of all spam messages. A reduction in spam, it was noted at the end of autumn in connection with the closing of U.S. hosting provider McColo, who worked on the resources of several command centers of major botnetov.

According to a study Sophos, fraudsters are increasingly attacking the users of social networks, and the number of letters with malicious attachments for the year increased by five times. However, in 2008, one of the main tools the spread of malicious programs have become removable media.

Prepared based on PC World and Sophos (file format PDF, size – 870 Kb).