New Threat May Be Unstoppable

New Threat May Be Unstoppable

According to Val Smith, founder of Attack Research, traditional computer security systems may be ineffective when dealing with web attacks launched by countries. Recent attacks have been seen on high-traffic sites and have targeted these sites with blog spam. The attacks have mostly originated in Russia and China. Clicking on links within these seemingly legitimate blogs takes users to other pages resembling blogs but which are really pages containing malware. This then causes these sites to become "malware depots," essentially ruining the sites. Because the attackers are legitimately posting blogs on these sites, traditional forms of security are unable to stop these disseminators of malware.