The Insider's Guide to Business and IT Agility
The Insider's Guide to Business and IT Agility
08/27/2008
ScanSafe, a provider of SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) web security reported that the total number of web-based malware blocks has increased by 87 percent in July 2008 compared to the previous month.
ebizQ received the following:
Specifically, the first two weeks in July have shown an extraordinarily high volume of malware blocks.
The increase in Web-based malware was driven by the ongoing compromise of websites which represented 83 percent of all malware blocks for the month. The increase was largely the result of the continued SQL injection attacks which were responsible for 75 percent of all malware blocks in July 2008. As a result, July has had an overwhelming number of malware blocks – 34 percent more blocks than the whole of 2007.
"In June 2008 we reported a 278 percent increase for the first six months of the year. That alarming trend has continued with the number of Web-based malware blocks exploding in the first two weeks of July," said Mary Landesman, senior security researcher at ScanSafe.
July 2008 also bore witness to an increase in social engineering email scams designed to install malware – including backdoor Trojans and rogue scanners - on victim's computers. Worryingly, 95 percent of ScanSafe customers fell for the scams and attempted to clickthrough to the malicious sites, which represented 1.3 percent of all malware blocks for the month. Fortunately all ScanSafe customers were and are protected from such malicious content.
"Although this may not seem like a high percentage, it is extremely significant given that these scams are now able to get past spam filters which typically provide a high level of protection from this type of socially engineered malware," Landesman commented. "It is disconcerting that cyber criminals are becoming increasingly sophisticated in creating these scams, so much so that more and more people are falling for them."
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