Symantec Reports Malicious Web Attacks Are on the Rise

Symantec's latest Internet Security Threat Report shows that hackers are increasingly compromising legitimate Web sites and using them as a distribution medium to attack both home and corporate computers. This means online users can be infected simply by visiting Web sites they believe they can trust. In addition, by leveraging site-specific vulnerabilities hackers are able to launch multi-stage attacks that can propagate very quickly among users.