About half of the world’s malware is hosted by US alone: by Amazon and GoDaddy

Our insight about the source for all wicked malware on the internet might seem to be going wrong. This can be said seeing the new analysis by a firm Solutionary SERT. The report indicates that US is the biggest host of malicious software and it leads the nation which follows it way ahead. It showed that 44% of the world’s malware find their root at US based servers. Second nation on this list is Germany with 9%.

Going further down the list, for China and Russia the percentage of malware hosted is 6% for both. The easy accessibility of cloud storage has helped in making file management easier, but this has also helped in distributing the malicious software much easily now.

SERT indicated that the chief reason which describes the high percentage of malware hosted in the US is the availability of cloud storage from GoDaddy and Amazon. These providers describe about 14% and 16% of the malware, respectively. However, the remaining major chunk relates to the many smaller number of domains. The distribution could dramatically change if these were moved or shutdown.

The command and control servers for Trojans and viruses are in a different country, but the fact that so much of it is being dispersed in US alone, makes it little surprising. Geographical blacklisting cannot be employed when the malware is lying on legitimate domains and servers in the US. The company also pointed out that most antivirus apps are not empowered to detect software that is a spam or which can act as an entryway for exploits. Thus, the best way to stay secured or act smart is by start using your head.

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