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02/10/2020
3 Malware Trends to Watch Out for in 2020
The State of Security
Malware closed out 2019 on a strong note. According to AV-TEST, malware authors’ efforts throughout the year helped push the total number of known malware above one billion samples. This development wouldn’t have been possible without the vigor exhibited by malware authors in the fall of 2019. Indeed, after detecting 8.5 million new samples in June and 9.56 million specimens the following month, AV-TEST saw the monthly totals jump up above 13 million in August. This monthly rate of detection has not faltered at the time of writing. After peaking in September with 17.70 million, it’s actually remained above 15 million with the exception of October at 13.52 million samples.
AV-TEST’s findings paint a picture of a threat landscape flooded with malware. While threat actors can use these samples to get up to trouble in any old way, it’s likely that more and more criminals will flock to certain channels rather than others over the coming year. Here are three such trends that organizations should keep an eye on in 2020.
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