Security researchers take down 100,000 malware sites over the last ten months

[M.Poorya]

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Over the last ten months, security researchers filed abuse reports with web hosting providers and have taken down nearly 100,000 URLs that were used to distribute malware, said today Abuse.ch, a non-profit cybersecurity organization.

These coordinated efforts were part of the URLhaus initiative that Abuse.ch launched in March 2018, and whose primary objective is to collect and share URLs about active malware campaigns so the information security (infosec) community can take action by blacklisting or taking down URLs.

In a report published today, Abuse.ch says the URLhaus project has been a resounding success, with 265 security researchers sharing URLs and filing abuse reports with web hosting providers over the past year.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/security-r...en-months/

 

[straycat19]

There are legitimate sites that provide malware for research.  I am a member of several of those sites.  As for the sites that maliciously distribute malware, it is just a game of Whack-A-Mole.  Take one down and it comes back in a matter of hours.  Why?  Because it isn't just about destroying data, like the viruses of 29 years ago, but about the data they steal or the money they make (supposedly, because though a ransom has been paid, many have not been collected) so it is worth their while.  Until all users become security conscious they will continue to try and lure people in.  There was another article posted concerning malware being in cracks, but that has never stopped anyone from using them.