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Google removes thousands of malware sites

Submitted by: KnightMare @ 08:16 AM | Thursday, November 29, 2007 | (url: http://www.comput...)

Google Inc. has purged its index of the thousands of malware sites that wormed their way into results lists for hundreds of legitimate search phrases, researchers confirmed today.

"They look gone to us," said Alex Eckelberry, the CEO of Sunbelt Software Distribution Inc., the company that broke the news Monday of a massive, coordinated campaign by attackers to spread malware through search results on Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Live Search and other sites.

Earlier today, Sunbelt malware researcher Adam Thomas said his spot searches on Google the night before had come up sans malware URLs. "They appeared to be zapped," Thomas had said.

Malware expodes a full fivefold increase

Submitted by: KnightMare @ 09:25 AM | Friday, November 9, 2007 | (url: http://news.yahoo...)

Malicious code that installs files such as Trojans, password stealers, keyboard loggers and other malware on users' systems registered a fivefold increase in the first half of 2007, according to research released by Microsoft at the RSA Security conference in London.
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And in the same period, 31.6 million phishing scams were detected, an increase of 150 percent over the previous six months.

The survey, sponsored by Microsoft and conducted by the Ponemon Institute, interviewed more than 3,600 security, privacy and marketing executives across a variety of industries, such as financial services, healthcare, technology and government, in the U.S., U.K. and Germany.