Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Malware - Year 2013 saw 82000 variants per day



If 82k new variants are released everyday then, I wonder how many people were working on it or how easy it would be to tweak one to create a new variant.

According to the report:- 

More than 70 percent of new malware strains were Trojans. 
Worms accounted for 13.3 percent of all new malware 
The number of malware strains grew 13.3 percent last year

Here is the bad news
Around 32 percent of computers around the world are malware-infected (1 out of three computers)


China is home to the most infected machines, with 54 percent, followed by Turkey (42 percent) and Ecuador (40 percent). Sweden has the lowest infection rate, with 20 percent

More than 2 million new malware threats emerged last year for Android alone

The following link has full report (PDF):


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