Protect Your Interwebs!
Last month ( May 2012), we were able to identify 94,866 compromised (hacked) websites using our free SiteCheck scanner.
These were the top infections per distribution type (iframes and conditional redirections). A comparison to April can be seen here – Sucuri SiteCheck – Web Malware Distribution – April 2012):
You can more closely follow the daily activity in our labs by following Sucuri Labs and monitoring the Sucuri Labs page.
As many know, we have been offering our free website malware scanner – Sucuri SiteCheck, since early in 2011. In our commitment to continue to give back to the community, we want to share some statistics. We’d like to share the distribution of infections based on the number of sites that are being scanned using Sucuri SiteCheck.
In January, we scanned a couple 100 thousand sites. From those we were able to better understand the distribution of malware.
We scan hundreds of thousands of sites daily here at Sucuri and while analyzing some of the data we got interested on what sites are getting the “link love” more often.
By link love, I mean what “do follow” links most webmasters have in their sites? After extracting the data from the last 500k scans we did, those were the top:
So it means that 6.9% of the sites had a link to facebook, 6.4% to twitter, etc. I was actually surprised to see validator.w3.org ranked so well. We would be in a much better place if even 1% of the sites validated properly.
It also shows the force of WordPress, with almost 3% of the sites linking there (and probably using WordPress).
Those were the top 30:
It is also interesting that people are linking to shorten URLS (bit.ly) so often too. What do you think? What sites do you have linked in your own sites?
Google recently published a list with the top 1000 most visited web sites in the world. We found that list very interesting and decided to take a closer look at them.
These are stats we took:
A few of these numbers really amazed us. Nginx, for example, was used in 15% of the sites, very close to IIS with only 17%. Jquery is being used in almost 30% of the top sites and 42% are using Google analytics.
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