{"id":380,"date":"2016-01-27T12:47:47","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T19:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/?p=380"},"modified":"2016-01-27T12:47:47","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T19:47:47","slug":"report-cybercriminals-are-cooking-up-malware-in-record-numbers-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/report-cybercriminals-are-cooking-up-malware-in-record-numbers-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Cybercriminals Are Cooking up Malware in Record Numbers | Hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Report: Cybercriminals Are Cooking up Malware in Record Numbers<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pandasecurity.com\/mediacenter\/press-releases\/all-recorded-malware-appeared-in-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release<\/a> by the Spanish security company revealed the startling number to be nine million new samples more than the previous year \u2013 2014. Essentially, that\u2019s 230,000 new malware samples produced every single day on average throughout 2015.<\/p>\n<p>2015 also saw another record notched up wherein 27 percent of all malware samples \u2013 ever recorded \u2013 were observed during the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>The highlights revealed that:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Trojans proved to be the undisputed king of malware at 51.45% of all collected samples.<\/li>\n<li>Viruses constituted for 22.79%<\/li>\n<li>Worms came after at 13.22%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Potentially unwanted programs or PUPs figured in next at 10.71% followed by cases of spyware at 1.83%.<\/p>\n<p>The notorious <a href=\"https:\/\/hacked.com\/tag\/cryptolocker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cryptolocker ransomware<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p><p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/hacked.com\/report-cybercriminals-are-cooking-up-malware-in-record-numbers\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/hacked.com\/report-cybercriminals-are-cooking-up-malware-in-record-numbers\/\">Report: Cybercriminals Are Cooking up Malware in Record Numbers | Hacked<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u2013 2014. Essentially, that\u2019s 230,000 new malware samples produced every single day on average throughout 2015. 2015 also saw another record notched up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-and-non-specific-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}