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Comments On Blogs Likely To Be Spam
Mike Sachoff
Staff Writer
2009-09-16
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In the first half of 2009, 77 percent of websites with malicious code were legitimate sites that had been compromised, according to a new report from Websense.
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The high percentage was maintained over the past six months due in part to widespread attacks including Gumblar, Beladen, and Nine Ball which aimed to compromise trusted and known properties with massive injection campaigns.
Web 2.0 sites allowing user-generated content are a top target for cybercriminals and spammers. The report found that 95 percent of user-generated comments to blogs, chat rooms and message boards are spam or malicious.
"The last six months have shown that malicious hackers and fraudsters go where the people are on the Web -- and have heightened their attacks on popular Web 2.0 sites and continued to compromise established, trusted Web sites in the hope of infecting unsuspecting users," said Dan Hubbard, Chief Technology Officer, Websense.
"From malicious Twitter spam campaigns and blog comment spam to the massive injection attacks, those perpetrating fraud are exploiting the inherent trust users have of known Web properties and other users."
In addition, 69 percent of Web pages with content classified as objectionable also had at least one malicious link. This is becoming more widespread, as 78 percent of new web pages discovered in the first half of 2009 with objectionable content had at least one malicious link.
The convergence of blended web and email threats continues to increase. The report found that 85.6 percent of all unwanted emails in circulation during this period contained links to spam sites or malicious websites.
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