Most Malicious Code Launched From Legitimate Web Sites

The proliferation of user-generated content on popular Web 2.0 sites has opened the door for hackers to plant malware, says Websense report.

By Thomas Claburn
InformationWeek
July 29, 2008 04:45 PM

Seventy-five percent of Web sites with malicious code are legitimate Web sites that have been hacked, according to a new security report issued by Websense that covers the first two quarters of 2008. This represents a 50% increase over the previous six-month period.

Stephan Chenette, manager of Websense Security Labs, said that while security vendors differ on many things, they pretty much all agree that compromised legitimate sites currently serve most of the malicious code in circulation.

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