Almost half of malicious sites are in the USA

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Another study in the field of Internet security showed that 44% of sites with malicious code are hosted on servers located in the United States. Next on the list are China and Germany.

The study was conducted by AVG Technologies, a manufacturer of antivirus products. The research material was information on Internet threats, which was provided by users of LinkScanner, a product of AVG, which allows real-time detection of infected web pages for six months. The number of users who sent threat messages is close to 110 million.

The study showed that most often infected resources “steal” details for accessing online accounts, information about credit cards, personal data of users and their passwords for accounts on social networks, writes Help Net Security.

It turned out that about 44% of active web servers serving sites with malicious code are located in the USA. The second and third places in the "ranking" were taken by Germany and China - for them this figure is approximately 5%. It was also found that most infected sites were hacked by hackers, and before that they were completely “law-abiding”.

Moreover, the study does not say where hackers who hack sites live, that is, infected resources can be hosted in the United States, but hackers from other countries may be the creators of the malicious code.

According to AVG Chief Technology Officer Karel Obluk, the study dispelled the popular myth that most servers serving sites with malicious code are located in countries with undeveloped cybercrime legislation. The US is the main target of cybercriminals due to the developed Internet infrastructure: malicious code hosted on American servers will do more damage to users.

Obluk also added that in half the cases, malicious code was available on sites for no more than a day, which makes it difficult to detect threats.

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[Матушкин Андрей Николаевич]

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