160,000 new malware samples appear each dayime

  • 2 September 2014
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By: HNS Staff/ Posted on 9/2/2014
 
Malware is still being created at the record levels reached in the previous quarter: 15 million new samples were generated, at an average rate of 160,000 every day, according to Panda Security.


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Trojans, once again, have accounted for more infections (62.8%) than any other type of malware, although this figure is lower than the previous quarter (79.90%).

Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs) are in second place with 24.77% of infections, underlining how these techniques are now being used massively. A long way behind came adware/spyware (7.09%), viruses (2.68%) and worms (2.66%).

The global infection rate during the second quarter of 2014 was 36.87%, a significant rise on recent periods, thanks largely to the proliferation of PUPs. Country by country, China once again had the most infections, with a rate of 51.05%, followed by Peru (44.34%) and Turkey (44.12%).

 
 
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Help Net Security/ full article here/ http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=2855

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