Hackers fulfilled the annual plan for six months

Russia portal Infox.ru conducted a survey of experts in the field of Internet security. The results were interesting:

Experts from Kaspersky Lab counted 17 million infected files on the Internet for the first half of 2009. According to the managing director of the company Sergei Zemkova, the figure is already sharing it with the figure for the full year 2008 and continues to grow. "In late 2009, the Internet will be up to 30 million infected files", - said Sergey Zemkov.

According to a senior manager of corporate communications at Kaspersky Lab Mikhail Vasin, causes a sharp increase in the number of viruses - the material interest of cyber criminals. "If before the code was written for the sake of mischief, but now it is a criminal business - he says. - In this world there is division of labor. Some people write programs, others are sold, others use.

"Clearly, there is an increase, but to calculate the total number of infected files very difficult" - observes Kirill Leonov, pr-manager Ltd. Doctor Web producer antivirus Dr.Web.

The rapid growth of information (stored on large hard drives, numerous USB flash drive), multiplied by the flippant attitude to data protection, commented on the situation of information security director of the department of "I-Teco" Oleg Kuzmin.

"I think it should not be worried by this fact, because the statistics only shows the continued and increasing carelessness of PCs and mobile devices, rather than criminal tsunami in the computer world", - calms the expert.

"For every thousand infected computers users have already started a serious fight, because to survive in a competitive market of cybercrime can be the only way: to infect as many machines as possible. In order to get a bot-net size of 100 thousand vehicles, it is necessary to attack millions of computers. This is a global epidemic. To make this bot does not save, need regular new attacks. And this is a diverse global epidemic "- the report said. According to Mikhail Vasin, forecast comes true and trends do not change.

As reported in virus review by Doctor Web, for the first half of 2009, among a large flow of malware released malicious software in the ATMs, the wave of software-extortionists and new threats for Mac OS X. In addition, in spring 2009 came the first major botnet consisting of infected web resources.

Cybercriminals drew attention to Twitter. "It has increased the total number of spam messages containing links to malicious web resources. Particular attention should be paid to the fact that the links in this service due to their reduction impersonal. You can not automatically figure out what lies behind them "- said in the review.

The rapid growth in the number of malicious programs on the network - a natural process, experts say. New services and resources is of great interest to the virus in terms of profit, says CIO of the company ESET Pavel Potasuev.

According to the company Symantec, now the main focus malicious activity on the Internet began attacks on Web applications. "According to the report Symantec Internet Security Threat Report Volume XIV in 2008 63% of all vulnerabilities were disadvantages of different web applications. It is almost a 60% increase over the previous reporting period. In addition, Symantec in 2008 and found more than 55 thousand phishing websites - 66% more than in 2007 "- written by experts of the company.

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