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<blockquote data-quote="Andy Ful" data-source="post: 1001614" data-attributes="member: 32260">
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<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Taken from Statista (the year 2021): 
Malware attacks ......:&nbsp; over 10 000 per minute 
Ransomware attacks:&nbsp; over 1 000 per minute 
So ransomware attacks are only about 10% of all malware attacks.</li>
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<li data-xf-list-type="ul">From the SonicWall mid-year 2022 Cyber Threat Report it follows that about 2/3 of all new malicious threats are non-EXE files.</li>
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<li data-xf-list-type="ul">About 90% of the ransomware found on the dark web has been delivered via malicious macros to infect targeted systems. 
[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/87-ransomware-brands-exploit-macros/[/URL]</li>
</ul>Conclusion.The best anti-ransomware protection is hardening MS Office (especially Excel). The chances of ransomware infection can decrease to about 1/100 compared to the infection by another malware type.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Andy Ful, post: 1001614, member: 32260"] [LIST] [*]Taken from Statista (the year 2021): Malware attacks ......: over 10 000 per minute Ransomware attacks: over 1 000 per minute [B]So ransomware attacks are only about 10% of all malware attacks.[/B] [/LIST] [ATTACH type="full" alt="1662503688676.png"]268966[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="1662503824487.png"]268967[/ATTACH] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.statista.com/topics/8338/malware/#topicHeader__wrapper[/URL] [LIST] [*][B]From the SonicWall mid-year 2022 Cyber Threat Report it follows that about 2/3 of all new malicious threats are non-EXE files.[/B] [/LIST] [ATTACH type="full" alt="1662506449669.png"]268969[/ATTACH] [LIST] [*][B]About 90% of the ransomware found on the dark web has been delivered via malicious macros to infect targeted systems.[/B] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/87-ransomware-brands-exploit-macros/[/URL] [/LIST] [B]Conclusion. The best anti-ransomware protection is hardening MS Office (especially Excel). The chances of ransomware infection can decrease to about 1/100 compared to the infection by another malware type.[/B] [/QUOTE]

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