[pchelpers] News:Hackers spread spyware from free personal websites

By  Staff writers, TechWeb       26 July 2005 09:50 AEST       Security

Hackers are using free personal webhosting sites from well-known ISPs to 
store malicious code and infect users with worms, viruses and spyware.

There has been a big jump in the use of personal hosting sites, said Dan 
Hubbard, director of security and technology research at web content 
filtering vendor Websense.

Hubbard said: "July has seen a major boom. In the first two weeks alone 
we found more instances than in May and June combined."

In the first half of the month, Websense found more than 500 free 
hosting sites created to spread keyloggers, Hubbard added. Since the 
beginning of the year, it had uncovered about 2500 such sites.

More here:
http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=19450

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