By: Fahmida Y. Rashid, eWeek
Cyber-criminals have been busy in the days after Christmas, targeting users with new gadgets and computers with phishing and malware campaigns. Malware infections spiked 25 percent on the day after Christmas, according to data released by SpywareRemove.com, a site that tracks malware infections by visits to its site. There was a small jump, about 4 percent, between Dec. 24 and Dec. 25, and a 25 percent spike between Dec. 25 and Dec. 26, according to the site. “The bad guys know there is fresh blood out there and they do their best to infect and destroy,” said Alvin Estevez, editor of SpywareRemove.com and CEO of Enigma Software, suggesting that many of the infected machines were new systems users had received for the holidays.
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