Posted by Ramsey Dehani
There has been a lot of talk around the rising sophistication of malware writers and hackers recently, with companies like McAfee releasing statistics and even Google getting attacked.
In addition to this, countries such as China and Brazil have been accused of allowing the web-hosting of hackers and criminals.
But now network security firm Sophos has put the matter to rest with its own list of the 'dirtiest' hosts.
Now the ones near the top are no real surprise. It is hardly a shock to discover that the US hosts the largest number of 'dangerous sites' (37.4% to be exact) considering the wealth of content hosted in the nation.
But interestingly enough, web-hosting in the UK was found to be among the cleanest and safest of the major economic powers, with barely 1.6% of malware sites hosted out of the UK.
Whether this is a testimony to the security of the UK's web-hosting practitioners is among the best (a nice thought and one that we at Bytehouse would of course love to perpetuate) is unclear.
Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, commented on his company's findings: "These hacked sites are particularly dangerous because of the large amount of traffic they may already receive, and because visitors may feel they can trust any unusual pop-ups they see.
"One of the growing methods through which hackers exploited legitimate websites during the last 12 month was the placing of malicious adverts (known as "malvertising"). Websites that fell victim to malvertising attacks, and thus passed infections on to their readers, included the New York Times and technology website Gizmodo."
In Europe, Turkey, Poland and Germany were all found to host more 'dangerous' sites than the UK.
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