Dasient finds nearly 6 million malware-infected Web pages

Jake Widman
Thursday, 29 October 2009 05:32

Business IT - Security

Web security specialist Dasient reports that its malware analysis platform has found more than 640,000 malware-ridden websites, accounting for 5.8 million individual infected pages.

Dasient is a new website security provider, claiming to offer protection against the widely acknowledged growing problem of Web-based malware attacks.

As part of that effort, the company uses a proprietary platform to track malware across the Internet. It now has results from the the third quarter of this year.

According to company founder Ameet Ranadivey, during those three months Dasient identified more than 52,000 infections, pushing the total number of unique infections catalogued by its platform to over 72,000.

That malware affected more than 640,000 individual sites and about 5.8 million pages. According to Ranadivey, "our research suggests that when sites are infected, the bad code is installed on a significant portion of the pages on those sites. In Q3'09, the infections on newly compromised sites of 10 pages or more spread to an average of 19% of those sites' pages."

The firm's analsysis also found that almost 40% of problem sites get reinfected.

More than 50% of the catalogued Web attacks were JavaScript-based, with another 37.1% being iFrame attacks.

Dasient plans to offer security professionals access to the company's Infection Library, which logs the most common malware discoverd that week.