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Google publishes list of worst malware sites on the web

The search engine giant Google has published a list of the top-ten most damaging malware sites, with experts warning that the practice of drawing users in to infect their computers is on the rise.

According to the new report, which was posted online, all of the sites in the list are believed to have compromised more than 10,000 innocent websites through the spread of malware, with both business and private users lacking adequate computer security for applications at risk.

Notably, around one in three of the sites identified by Google as having been set up for distributing malware boasted the suffix .cn, while a significant number have been set up to contain misleading names, including adjustments to the name Google itself.

A blog written by the company's employees expanded: "Other malware researchers reported widespread compromises pointing to the domains gumblar.cn and martuz.cn, both of which made it on our top-ten list.

"For gumblar, we saw about 60,000 compromised sites; Martuz peaked at slightly over 35,000 sites."

This new report comes on the back of the recent publication of the findings of a study carried out by McAfee, which showed that criminals are using keywords such as the names of Bollywood stars to draw people to malware sites.

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