Malicious web sites and botnet activity continued to dominate the cyber
securiy landscape over the past 12 months, with 10 major botnets now controlling
at least five million computers, according to Symantec's MessageLabs
Intelligence division.
The firm's MessageLabs Intelligence 2009 Security Report launched today
reported that the average number of new malicious web sites blocked each day
rose 7.6 per cent from 2008 to 2,465. It also found an overwhelming majority of
the blocked domains – 80 per cent – were legitimate sites that had been
compromised.
