ARLINGTON, Va. — Malware attacks that focus on obtaining personally identifiable information surged in the third quarter of 2007, according to a new report from Cyveillance.
Attacks from outside the United States grew significantly in the three-month period ending Sept. 30 and Germany now is host to 38% of malware "drop sites" the Cyveillance network detected, compared with 32% in the United States.
The United States had been host to 74% of the sites earlier in the year. Such sites are where information stolen from infected computers is collected.
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Credit unions (42%) and banks (51%) continue to be the main target of attackers and Cyveillance says the focus of attacks has continued to shift from phishing to malware.
"The ease with which malware can be distributed via Web-based attacks, combined with the inability of endpoint security providers to adequately protect against them, has given rise to the global use of malware as a more sophisticated method of conducting financial fraud." says Panos Anastassiadis, CEO of Cyveillance.
Cyveillance says it monitors information from more than 200 million unique domain name servers, 150 million unique Web sites, 80 million blogs, 90,000 message boards, thousands of IRC/chat channels, billions of spam e-mails, bot networks.
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