U.S. replaces China as top source of malicious servers
The USA has replaced China as the top source of computer servers being used by cybercriminals to dish out malicious programs.
Kaspersky Lab reports that 28% of 1.9 million servers it found distributing malware in the first three months of this year were located in the U.S. That compares to China as the source of 33% of 85.9 million malicious servers Kaspersky tracked down in the final quarter of 2009.
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