Websense Issues New Security Trends Report
Websense, Inc., a leading provider of employee internet management solutions, today announced the release of the 2005 semi-annual web security trends report issued by Websense Security Labs. The report summarizes findings for the first half of 2005 and presents projections for the upcoming year. According to the report, the web continued to evolve and grow as an attack vector in the first half of 2005. The report found a marked increase in the number of malicious websites and in the amount of crimeware, a term which refers to using malicious code written with criminal intent. The report states that the motive for creating malicious websites is shifting away from annoyances such as changing the default homepage and adding bookmarks to a browser to more nefarious purposes such as running exploit code to open a backdoor and changing browser address bars to spoofed websites such as banking phishing sites. The report found that the phishing landscape is also changing considerably and there have been significant differences in the types of targets and variety of attacks. The report has found an increase in the number of international brands targeted as well as dramatic increases in the number of smaller, regional banks being targeted, credit unions in particular. According to the report, spyware has also changed in the way that it is being used, with increasing use of keyloggers and screen scrapers, which are trojan horses designed to capture end-user screenshots, in acts of industrial espionage. "Websense Security Labs mine more than 60 million websites per day, looking for malicious activity. With our extensive malicious code detection and classification expertise, we have discovered many new attacks such as 'cyber-extortion' before our competitors" said Surendra Singh, head, south east Asia and India, Websense Inc.
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