Google: 9,500 new malicious websites per day

To prevent users from malicious web pages, Google will display alerts in its search results. Data are also published via the Safe Browsing API for other browsers like Firefox or Safari Google Chrome and more.

Safe Browsing is a global initiative officially launched five years ago and for which Google gives some figures today.

Every day there are nearly 9,500 new malicious sites that are detected. Some sites are designed specifically to distribute malware or phishing, while others are legitimate sites that have been compromised.

12 to 14 million search queries per day display a warning to compromised sites. Nearly 600 million users of Google Chrome, Firefox and Safari are several warnings million per day for sites with malware or phishing they are about to see.

Promotion requires a browser, Google slips in passing that the protection against malicious downloads Integrated Chrome tick rate of 300 000 downloads per day.

Google also states send thousands of daily notifications to webmasters about malware they must remove their sites, and Internet service providers to help them protect their networks.

According to data provided by Google, the number of legitimate sites that are compromised is declining. This is good news, but the number of attacks specially created websites to spread malware it is on the rise.

For phishing, the tendency is to web pages (URLs) that are online less than an hour to avoid detection. Attacks are more targeted and based on the harvesting of personal information. Phishing sites commonly use the appearance of popular websites and social networks to deceive their victims and cause them to install malware.

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