Malicious programs migrate from Chinese servers
Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, announces that it has issued its quarterly malware report titled, Information Security Threats in the First Quarter of 2010.
According to the report the US and Russia have surpassed China’s lead in terms of the numbers of servers located on their territories that host malicious programs.
Over the first three months of this year, more than 119 million malware hosting servers were detected, of which 27.57% were located in the US and 22.59% in Russia, with just 12.84% in China. The situation looked radically different in late 2009, with 32.8% of servers hosting malicious programs located in China, 25.03% in the US, 11.73% in the Netherlands and 7.97% in Russia.
