While providing a detailed report on its
anti-malware intiatives, Google recently revealed that it identifies
nearly 9,500 new malicious sites every day. Google further says it
provides millions of malware-related warnings to Internet users daily.
Niels Provos from Google's security team said in a blog post that the Internet company
finds nearly 9,500 new malicious websites every day, which includes
sites that have been victims of cyber attacks or the ones that have been
specially developed to spread malware or for phishing.
"Our detection techniques are highly accurate—we have had only a handful of false positives,” he wrote.
Google says about 600 million users of
various browsers – Chrome, Firefox and Safari – see million
malware/phishing warnings per day for sites they are about to visit.
"When we detect malware or phishing, we trigger a red warning screen
that discourages clicking through to the website. Our free and public
Safe Browsing API allows other organizations to keep their users safe by
using the data we've compiled,” Provos wrote.
Google's detailed report commemorates
the fifth anniversary of its Safe Browsing feature, which ensures
malware and phishing are kept at bay. Google's Safe Browsing also aims
to educate website owners on ways to make their websites secure.
Google discovers that e-commerce
websites mostly suffer from phishing attacks, as most of the phishers
are “motivated by money”. Provos adds phishers are geographically
dispersed and to avoid detection they stay online for less than an hour.
Malware developers, on the other hand, attempt to take control over
other websites.
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