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Greater vigilance is necessary to combat the threat posed by malware, a new report warns this week, as the criminals distributing it get more sophisticated.

“There are countless examples where trusted sites have been compromised to host malware, or code that will redirect the user to a malware site,” Chenxi Wang of Forrester Research warned.

Once restricted to marginal domains and sites, malware is increasingly being inserted into mainstream, popular websites, often with very damaging results for users and site operators alike.

“It’s important for operators of trusted sites to be extremely vigilant about the security of their sites so that there is no possibility they could be compromised,” Dr Wang said.

Forrester’s new report, “Threat Report: 2007 and Beyond”, is due to be published this week at the analyst’s Security Forum Emea event in Amsterdam.

In it, the firm examines the complex criminal networks that create and distribute malware, and the purposes it is put to.

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Many businesses are less prepared than they think when it comes to using Web 2.0 technologies, a new survey has suggested.

While almost 97 per cent of companies polled by Forrester Research for Secure Computing said they believed themselves to be ready for internet threats, more than two-thirds admitted to needing to do more.

And when asked how regularly they fall foul of malware attacks, 79 per cent of respondents said they did so frequently.

‘The need to keep inappropriate content at bay, reduce non-business bandwidth consumption and limit exposure to internet threats gave rise to the industry of web filtering,’ the report stated.

It added: ‘The need for more effective web protection has never been greater.’

Earlier this week, Antti Ohrling, founder of mobile firm Blyk, told the MediaGuardian Changing Advertising Summit that experts were wrong to assume that Web 2.0 could enjoy the same level of success on mobile phones as it has done on the traditional internet, the Guardian reports.

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