There's a Bot in Your PC

Total posts: 1 Aiding—and aided by—the rise of blended threats around the world, botnets are digging in—and using your network as a base of operations. Last month we talked about blended threats—attacks that use a combination of deployment vectors such as phishing to entice you to visit a Web site, and Web sites that rely on browser exploits to plant malware on your machine. We also made the point that simple Web content filtering isn't enough to combat malware deployed over the Web because content filters usually analyze entire sites and not specific pages. So if malware is hosted on a hacked site or a big public site, then a content filter typically won't stop users from visiting specific pages. Legitimate sites as malware delivery systems are no small matter. Sophos (www.sophos.com) has discovered that during the first... [read full story]