Study: US took China's place for most malware
American websites host more malware and computers relay more spam than any other country, the latest security report showed. As evidence of this, when an American Internet company, accused of collaborating with spammers and hackers, was disconnected from the net in November, the level of spam staggered down 75 percent.
The 'Security Threat Report 2009' was just published by Sophos, the U.K.-based IT security and control firm, which examined the threat landscape over the last twelve months, and predicted the emerging cybercrime trends for 2009.
"Not only is the U.S. relaying the most spam because too many of its computers have been compromised and are under the control of hackers, but it's also carrying the most malicious Web pages," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos. "We would like to see the States making less of an impact on the charts in the coming year. American computers, whether knowingly or not, are making a disturbingly large contribution to the problems of viruses and spam affecting all of us today."
