Report: Cybercriminals Are Cooking up Malware in Record Numbers
A press release by the Spanish security company revealed the startling number to be nine million new samples more than the previous year – 2014. Essentially, that’s 230,000 new malware samples produced every single day on average throughout 2015.
2015 also saw another record notched up wherein 27 percent of all malware samples – ever recorded – were observed during the previous year.
The highlights revealed that:
- Trojans proved to be the undisputed king of malware at 51.45% of all collected samples.
- Viruses constituted for 22.79%
- Worms came after at 13.22%.
Potentially unwanted programs or PUPs figured in next at 10.71% followed by cases of spyware at 1.83%.
The notorious Cryptolocker ransomware was the most destructive, far-reaching and widely-scaled cyberattack of them all, affecting hundreds of thousands, if not millions of computers around the world.
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