Report: Cybercriminals Are Cooking up Malware in Record Numbers | Hacked

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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