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Windows: Malware samples exceeded 1 billion mark
Windows: Malware samples exceeded 1 billion mark

At the end of December 2022 and January 2023, the AV-TEST statistics tool AV-ATLAS registered more than 1 billion malware samples for Windows. However, the increase continues rapidly with 7 to 10 million new malware samples per month. The number of more than 1 billion malware samples for Windows is staggering. The monthly growth figures are also absolutely frightening. As of the date of the article, the tool counted exactly 1.014.313.024 samples - again an increase of over 14 million. Just for comparison: With this number of malware samples, there are now statistically about...

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2022: 400.000 new malware files per day!
2022: 400.000 new malware files per day!

The latest Kaspersky Security Bulletin shows a 5 percent increase in malware and a 181 percent increase in ransomware compared to 2021. That is an average of about 400.000 malware files per day or almost 5 malware samples per second. Kaspersky experts see an increase in the spread of malware and ransomware. In 2022, for example, Kaspersky's protection solutions detected an average of around 400.000 malicious files that were circulated per day - an increase of five percent compared to the previous year 2021. In addition, the...

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Key technologies against ransomware
Key technologies against ransomware

Ransomware is a chronic threat. But their appearance is constantly changing. On the one hand, behind the permanent change there is a scene that is becoming more and more professional, thinks more economically or even politicizes itself in the current crisis. On the other hand, there are new technologies. Here Bitdefender shows four pillars for defending against extortion attacks. An effective defense must set up itself accordingly in depth and ward off the extortionate attacks in the various phases. The current Bitdefender Threat Report, which takes into account the telemetry data from the previous month, shows for the month of May 2022 how active…

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Ukraine war: Spam and phishing surges
AV TEST News

The fight for the freedom of Ukraine is also being waged on the Internet. The independent institute AV-TEST has registered a sharp increase in spam mails with phishing on its real-time portal AV-ATLAS. In one day, the increase was even 500 percent. “One day before the Russians invaded Ukraine, we registered a massive increase in spam emails. Two days earlier there was a significant increase in cyber attacks. Instead of a few tens of thousands of attempts, we registered hundreds of thousands for a short time,” says Maik Morgenstern, CEO of the cyber security institute AV-TEST. Lots of spam emails with...

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Ransomware: Germany ranks fifth among the affected countries 
Bitdefender_News

Bitdefender: Germany ranks fifth among the countries affected by ransomware. Bitdefender Threat Debrief August 2021 with the latest ransomware statistics: 19,8 million ransomware detections worldwide in one month and the first signs of a REvil comeback. Telemetry data from Bitdefender Labs shows extensive activity on the ransomware scene for the month of August. Ransomware has been detected in 174 countries. Seven percent of the detections were found in Germany. This puts Germany in fifth place worldwide behind the USA (30%), India (17%), Brazil (15%) and Iran (8%). WannaCryptor family is at the top of the attack 30 percent of the detections in August could be attributed to the WannaCryptor family ...

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DDoS attacks: the economy in the crosshairs

The economy in the crosshairs: the number of DDoS attacks skyrocketed. In the first half of 2021, Link11 recorded a third more attacks than in the DDoS record year 2020. The sharp increase in emergency integrations in connection with DDoS extortion is just as worrying. The number of DDoS attacks reached a new high in the first half of 1. The increase compared to the same period of the previous year with its DDoS boom and a doubling of attacks was another 2021 percent. This is evident from the new network statistics from the Link33 Security Operations Center (LSOC). Attack numbers have been increasing for months In addition, the number and severity of ...

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Cyber ​​attacks increase by 154 percent
Cyber ​​attack access data

The current threat analysis by G DATA CyberDefense shows: Cyber ​​criminals also massively attacked private users and companies in the second quarter. The number of cyber attacks increased by 154 percent in the second quarter. In May alone, G Data registered more than twice as many attacks as in April. "Cyber ​​criminals continue to benefit from the Corona crisis and have made significantly more attempted attacks since the outbreak of the pandemic," says Tim Berghoff, Security Evangelist at G DATA CyberDefense. “Even though many employees have now returned from their home office to their office workstation, people spend a lot more time privately on ...

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