[pchelpers] News:US, China behind two-thirds of computer security threats

Tuesday January 23, 12:38 AM

The United States and China host nearly two-thirds of spam, viruses and
other computer security threats delivered around the world in 2006.

Computer security firm Sophos said 34.2 percent of the so-called malware
last year originated from the United States, with 31 percent from China.
Russia was third, accounting for 9.5 percent of the threats.

"The enormous number of computers based in North America probably makes
it no surprise that the US heads the list, and is hosting over a third
of all websites containing malicious code," the report said Monday.

Sophos said it identified 207,684 different threats, ranging from spam,
viruses and "trojans" that download programs to infect computers, to
"ransomware" designed to "kidnap" data by encrypting it, and provide the
password once a ransom has been paid.

The report said 90 percent of all spam is now relayed from "zombie
computers" infected with some kind of malicious code.

More here:
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/070122/1/464n4.html
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