Google identifies top 10 malware domains, Beladen ranked 124th
Monday, June 8, 2009
A recent report from web security researchers identifying the domain Beladen.net as having infected 40,000 websites appears to have been overblown. According to the Google security blog, Google has identified only 3,500 sites infected by Beladen.
Google said its scans of the web have uncovered more than 4,000 sites that appear to have been set up for distributing malware - 1,400 of which are located in China.
The top 10 domains included Gumblar.cn, which infected 60,000 websites before the domain was moved to a UK site called Martuz, which has infected another 35,000.
All of the domains on Google's top 10 list have compromised more than 10,000 websites. The domain googleanalytics.net, which like several other malware sites spoofs a legitimate Google site, had infected around 20,000 sites.
Researchers said Beladen also uses a domain name similar to the legitimate Google Analytics domain to record the users' browsing statistics for the attacker. Beladen's 3,500 infected sites ranked it only 124 on the list, Google said.
Security researchers last week likened these mass infection sites to botnets of infected websites.
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