Malware hiding in plain sight

It used to be that malware was hosted on the domains that were typically hidden from the average user, hosted in other countries. For example, for a long time malware was most prevalent on ".cm" and ".cn" domains (Cameroon and China respectively). A new report from McAfee shows that malware is now fully entrenched in the ".com" domain. In their latest study ".com" took over ".cm" to be the top domain hosting malware. 31.3% of all sites hosted on a ".com" domain are considered risky. The ".info" domain came in second with 30.7% sites rated risky. ".vn" (Vietnam) came in third at 29.4% and ".cm" fell to fourth to 22.2%.

This new study just confirms what we already know. Hackers and providers of malware are just getting bolder, and that there's more threats out there. It's more important than ever now to make sure your organization is protected when browsing the web using an up to date proxy or secure web gateway.