Cybercriminals are increasingly using blog sites and other free online services to spread malicious code, Websense has warned.In the first two weeks of July, the security company's labs saw more than 500 incidents of such attacks, Websense said on Monday. The free services are being abused to install software designed to steal personal information or hijack a victim's PC.
"July has seen a major boom--in the first two weeks alone, we found more instances than in May and June combined," Dan Hubbard, the senior director of security and technology research at Websense, said in a statement.
For the year until mid-July, the San Diego company found a total of 2,500 incidents.
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