Dark Reading: Drive-By Downloads: Malware's Most Popular Distribution Method

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After years of burying malicious software in email and portable storage media, attackers now favor quick downloads via legitimate websites, researcher says

Nov 12, 2010
By Tim Wilson

Why try to fool users into opening email attachments when you can simply drop a Trojan on them from their favorite websites?

That's the question many malware authors and distributors are asking -- and the obvious answer is spurring most of them to try out the emerging "drive-by download" method, according to a speaker here this week.

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