Despite the fact that the Dutch authorities made frantic attempts to do the spread of malware, it appears the Netherlands is still among the top ten countries are where most of the malware is hosted. However, the Netherlands is slightly decreased in the top10.
The netherlands is already a few years in the top10-list of countries where most of the malware is hosted. These ten countries together account for 87 percent of all of the hosted malware. Research from security company Kaspersky reveals that although the Netherlands still to that top10 belongs, the actions of authorities against malware and botnets, their fruits begin to bear.
In the first quarter was 11.9 percent of the by Kaspersky discovered malware is still hosted in the Netherlands. In the second quarter dropped to 7.6 percent. The netherlands is a leader in the area of reducing the incidence of malware. “The attempts of the Dutch police, including those against the from the air of botnets such as Bredolad and Rustock, scare criminals off,” writes Kaspersky in are earlier this week published the report ‘IT Threat Evolution: Q2 2011’.
Incidentally, the Netherlands is not the only country with a decrease of the amount of hosted malware. Also in China, the number of malicious web sites. This country saw a decrease of 2 percentage points to 5.6 percent. This is remarkable because Chinese sites two years ago were responsible for the lion’s share of the hosted malware. In the meantime, this role acquired by the United States, where 28.5 percent of all malware is hosted. Russia follows at a modest second place with 16 percent.
According to the researchers, there is a chance that due to the increased hunting botnets, cyber criminals have their refuge will be looking to countries where the authorities have less work seem to be making cybercrime. “New legislation and successes in the fight against cybercrime in the U.S. and Western Europe can ensure that the distribution of malware is shifting from developed countries to less developed countries.”
A lot of malware takes advantage of vulnerabilities in applications. Kaspersky is also a list of software vulnerabilities with large impact. It is remarkable that in this list no Microsoft software is more common. For the first time, the list is now dominated by software packages of two companies: Adobe and Oracle. Seven of the top10-leaks are located in the Adobe Flash Player, the other three take Oracles Java environment. “Microsoft products are from this list disappeared due to improvements in the automatic update mechanism in Windows, and the increasing number of users that Windows 7 on their pc has installed,” concludes Kaspersky.
