Spyware blocking software has quickly become one of the mandatory tools used in internet security. It is no longer just users that are targeted, but corporate websites are under constant attack.
In the last few months we have seen popular Australian websites such as Daily Deals be infected with malware by hackers – a costly exercise for any business with the potential to lose Google ranking, have Anti-Virus plug-in display “this website is potential unsafe” warnings or a PR disaster.
These high traffic websites are the perfect target for criminal hackers as if they successfully penetrate a servers defences, which is often doing automatically they can distribute their malicious code to hundreds of thousands of users in a short time span.
Spyware has evolved quickly and now takes many forms such as:
- Websites and banner advertising serving up malware
- Spyware, Spam, Phising & Viruses
- Instant Messaging & Skype malware
- P2P file sharing malware
- Hijacked Facebook accounts & malicous Facebook applications
The criminal creators of the spyware are constantly innovating to gain an advantage over security vendors. Web attacks have seen a dramatic increase is recent years which has meant large websites such as Facebook have had to take more precautionary measures with the way users distribute links amongst themselves.