News Story Malware hosting trends exposed

Courtesy DaniWeb IT Discussion Community (Featured Entries)  Wed, 09/30/2009 - 04:46

Using newly registered domains with a very short lifespan to host malware websites is so last year. It would appear that these days such things are far more likely to be hosted on much older compromised web sites instead.

Could this be down to a decline in domain tasting?

The latest MessageLabs Intelligence report appears to think so, suggesting that the previously widespread practise of cancelling a new domain registration within a few days 'cooling off' period has...


 

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