Google Blogger Hosting 2% of Worlds Malware Software
August 8, 2008 by Pablo Palatnik
“Hackers Inflitrate Facebook,” an article posted in USAToday explaining how some hackers are using Facebook, the worlds largest social networks, or at least one of them, points out a statistic I found very interesting. Google Blogger (Blogspot.com), is host to 2% of the worlds malware software according sophos, one of the largest computer security firms in the world. Malware, also known as Malicious Software, is software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system.
For those of you who dont know, blogspot is Googles free blog software that is hosted by Google with millions of users that can set up a free blog in seconds completely free. You can host anything you want which is a great platform for spammers and hackers.
“…a new attack in which messages posted on the walls of Facebook users urge them to view a video which purports to be hosted on a Google website. But when the link is clicked on, the victim is directed to a website containing malicious malware.”
