China was recorded as the world's second largest home of phishing sites, stated Websense's Security Trend Report for the second half of 2005. During the period, China was also ranked the number two country for location of crimeware sites. Crimeware is software tools built with the purpose of committing online scams and stealing information from consumer and business.

The report generated by Websense was found through scanning 75 million sites per day, said Geoff Haggart, vice president of Websense. As the blocking technologies used in most antivirus providers with becoming a commodity, he said the role detection and discovery of potential threats becomes more important.

"What's more important is to find out what should be blocked, which is the focus of Websense," he said. "Different from the undesirable content, which is often visible to users, embedded threats and virus is becoming a major hidden problem."

One of them is bot-infected computer, which was a major cyber threat last year, said Symantec.

"China had the highest number of bot-infected computers in the APAC region, accounting for 50 percent of the regional total," stated Symantec Internet Security Threat Report March 2006, which tracks cyber threats in the same period.