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FireEye’s incident response division Mandiant observed more than 500 new malware families last year, the company revealed in its M-Trends 2020 report released this week.
FireEye analyzed 1.1 million malware samples per day in 2019 and it tracked a total of 1,268 malware families. Of these malware families, more than 500 were not seen before.
While a majority of the new malware impacted either Windows or multiple platforms, the company has still seen tens of new malware families targeting macOS or Linux.
FireEye analyzed 1.1 million malware samples per day in 2019 and it tracked a total of 1,268 malware families. Of these malware families, more than 500 were not seen before.
While a majority of the new malware impacted either Windows or multiple platforms, the company has still seen tens of new malware families targeting macOS or Linux.
The FireEye Mandiant M-Trends 2020 report is available in PDF format.