About one in ten websites is infected with malicious software that could result in a user’s personal information being stolen, according to Google.
Sensitive data such as banking passwords and e-mail addresses could unwittingly be handed over to criminals as a result of visiting infected pages, which work by exploiting a vulnerability in the user’s internet browser, a study by the search company suggests.
Google said that it had analysed approximately 4.5 million websites over a 12 month period and found that 450,000 had caused a test computer to make a ‘drive-by download’, a common example of which was a ‘keylogger’, which captures every keystroke a user makes.
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