According to PandaLabs, from April to June of 2015, 21 was discovered by millions of new variants of malware. This means 230.000 per day, 9.500 per hour, 160 per minute, and 2,66 per second.
As PandaLabs researchers point out, most of these new malware were trojans, and they represent 71.16% of the 21 million discovered, while second-place computer viruses, which came to 10,83% of all Q2 scans.
Η πλειοψηφία αυτών των νέων τύπων malware είναι απλές μεταλλάξεις, από βασικές τροποποιήσεις στον κώδικα του κακόβουλου λογισμικού. Οι επιτιθέμενοι χρησιμοποιούν τις παραλλαγές για να μπορούν να αποφύγουν τον εντοπισμό από applications protection against viruses.
The infection statistics are almost the same as the set of scan data, which shows 76,25% of all infections attributed to trojans, and the rest to "other types" of malware.
Οι περισσότεροι χρήστες που έχουν μολυνθεί καταγράφηκαν στην China, with an infection rate of 47,53%, followed by Turkey with 43.11%, Peru with 41,97%, Russia with 41,15%, and Argentina with 40,93%.
The rest of it Top 10 it concludes with Bolivia, Taiwan, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Ecuador.
On the other hand, countries with the lowest rates of malware infection were Sweden with 21,57%, Norway with 22,22%, Japan with 23,57%, Switzerland with 24,41%, and the United Kingdom with 25,71%.
The rest of Top 10 is complemented by Germany, France, Belgium, Portugal, and the Netherlands.
There was also a rise in cybercrime in the second quarter of 2015, according to PandaLabs, the Spanish security firm, who has seen an increase in the number of ransomware campaigns in PCs and mobile devices.
Some of the most notorious attacks were made with CrryptoLocker ransomware, which was distributed using Word documents. WhatsApp was used on mobile devices to spread it.
More information μπορείτε να διαβάσετε στην πλήρη report of PandaLabs for Q2 2015. (PDF)
