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Fake Pages Make The Web A Treacherous Place

Sep 13, 2010
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PCWorld: Fake Pages Make The Web A Treacherous Place

According to the research arm of security software firm Panda Security, bank sites are most likely to be spoofed by hackers trying to lure unsuspecting surfers. eBay comes second.


“Hackers create 57,000 new web pages every week in a bid to infect web users with malicious software, says PandaLabs.

The research arm of security firm Panda Security revealed that on average 375 keywords or brands are hijacked every week and used in the URLs of these malicious web pages.”

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