Next year more attacks via internet then via e-mail
E-mail is for years a popular spreads method for malware. With name Trojaanse horses become frequently via misleading e-mails spread, in which men enticed become till the installing of the meegestuurde malware. According to protections business Trend Micro, the web takes however the leading role as distribution channel about of e-mail.
in 2008 will the most threats of the web come, according to Trend Micros head researcher of Raimund Gene Tuesday during a presentation on the Gartner Symposium in San Fransisco.
The cause of the shift is that there meanwhile many protections software is that protected against attacks via the e-mail. This do not counts for web-threats. Protections business appeared to protect to find round incoming network traffic it with difficulty about gate 80, reports as Cnet. Gate 80 becomes uses for the surfen about internet via the http-protocol.
Market
E-mail is a question raise and send on of, http is real-time, Trend Micro-boss Eva Chen declares opposite Cnet. The rise of internet threats feeds an underground market for malware. As its there bugs available that evilwillenden via a website with an exploit entry provided till a pc, the so-called 'drive by' -attack.
According to Raimund Gene, the online threats drove away the traditional viruses. the last real virus that we had was Melissa in 1999'. Protections businesses offer also money for the details of vulnerabilities, but cybercriminals pay much more.
the large boys, below which wijzelf, there have been succeeded not in to hold equal step with the hackers, known Eva Chen. Shortly Trend Micro launches however a new websecurity in its concise protections package.