Chinese malware base

Beijing-based KnownSec , which has been collecting information on malicious sites in China for many years, yesterday opened its database for all anti-spam and anti-virus companies in the world, as well as for government agencies (any of the listed organizations can now request access to the database). The creators of antivirus software will now have access to relevant information from the very center of world virus-writing.

The KnownSec database contains much more information about Chinese malicious IP addresses than any other database in the world. But it is from the Chinese servers that the most spam and Trojans spread throughout the web, and in the past few months this share has increased dramatically. According to McAfee, in just half a year they have already given out 80% of the last year’s amount of malware, that is, a double growth is expected in a year.

KnownSec crawlers scan about 2 million sites per day and collect malware samples, record the dates and IP addresses of infected sites. The base of infected sites KnownSec is much more complete than that of Google (the one that is known to give out warning labels if you try to go to the infected site). Every day, KnownSec finds more than 100 brand new Trojans.
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via IDG News Service