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.
The majority of these new types of malware are simple mutations, from basic modifications to code of the malware. Attackers use the variants to be able to avoid detection by antivirus applications.
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.
Most infected users were recorded on 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 Top 10 completes 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 an increase in cybercrime in the second quarter of 2015, according to PandaLabs, the Spanish security firm, which noticed an increase in the number of ransomware campaigns on PCs as well as mobile Appliances.
Some of the most notorious attacks were carried out with CrryptoLocker ransomware which was distributed using Word documents. In mobile devices it was used application WhatsApp, for its dissemination.
More information can be read in PandaLabs' full report for Q2 2015. (PDF)
