China now the Official global hub for spyware

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

If I havent heard it, its new to me!
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From: http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsID=5983

China has overtaken the US as the major distributor of spy and
malware, the latest trend report from Webroot has claimed.

The company used its "Phileas" malware tracking system to reckon
China's proportion of global spyware as being 42 percent for the first
quarter of 2006, with the US a distant second at 17 percent. This
reverses the figures for Q4 of 2005, where the US was ahead.

If accurate, the figures are a strong indication that 2006 will be the
year that China, as long predicted, overtakes the US as the world's
number one malware producer. Last month, Sophos rated China as now
only a fraction behind the US in the bellweather spam production
league.

The Netherlands, France and Spain come next with a combined total of
12.5 percent of malware, but no one country comes close to two main
offenders.

Other statistics include the news that the cumulative figure for
malware-distribution sites has risen from 400,000 in 2005 to 427,000
in the first quarter of this year.

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-JP

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