The number of malware detections seen during the first half of 2008 has exceeded the growth rate experienced during 2007. We ended 2007 with 500,000 total detections. By the end of June 2008 this number is around 900,000. The growth rate has never been faster.
This recent explosion of malware doesn’t necessarily represent new types of threats. It is largely the packing, encryption, and obfuscation of existing families of trojans, backdoors, exploits, and other threats. What the increasing use of self-defense technologies in malware represents is the ever growing [Read more...]
Source: F-Secure.com
Filed under: General Security
