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<blockquote data-quote="struppigel" data-source="post: 945276" data-attributes="member: 86910">Older malware usually has already been studied, and is only analysed again if new variants emerge. Researchers who are working in IT security companies do not look at historical malware because it is not relevant for them. But university research could look into historical things.That&#039;s only partially true.Most malware out there is the same old families that have also been there 5 years ago. They just get some added features from time to time. It is not as fast-paced as malware reports make it seem.The only thing that changes rapidly is the way the very same malware families are packed and delivered. So only the package is always different and that package is usually what malware reports refer to as &quot;new threats&quot; where you see numbers in the millions. But under the hood, things move quite slowly. Malpedia has currently 2077 entries. That&#039;s it. That&#039;s all the important malware families starting from 2006 that were relevant enough to get an entry.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="struppigel, post: 945276, member: 86910"] Older malware usually has already been studied, and is only analysed again if new variants emerge. Researchers who are working in IT security companies do not look at historical malware because it is not relevant for them. But university research could look into historical things. That's only partially true. Most malware out there is the same old families that have also been there 5 years ago. They just get some added features from time to time. It is not as fast-paced as malware reports make it seem. The only thing that changes rapidly is the way the very same malware families are packed and delivered. So only the package is always different and that package is usually what malware reports refer to as "new threats" where you see numbers in the millions. But under the hood, things move quite slowly. Malpedia has currently 2077 entries. That's it. That's all the important malware families starting from 2006 that were relevant enough to get an entry. [/QUOTE]

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