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Malware Analysis
Malware (and ransomware) - very short statistics.
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<blockquote data-quote="struppigel" data-source="post: 1001632" data-attributes="member: 86910"><p>I wish I could see the source for these statistics because most malware reports are utterly misleading. E.g., it is very common for them to just take the usual sample streams (from sandbox systems, security vendors, from VT etc) and equate the number of samples with number of attacks. That means all of the malware that replicates themselves on sandbox systems are seen as different attacks (I would estimate that more than 50% of the samples are from just that because such malware creates thousands of new samples from one run).</p><p>That also means old malware that is very common to occur in such sample streams, is counted as recent attacks.</p><p></p><p>I think we should take this with a grain of salt.</p><p>If someone has a statista account and access to the source, it would be great to know.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="struppigel, post: 1001632, member: 86910"] I wish I could see the source for these statistics because most malware reports are utterly misleading. E.g., it is very common for them to just take the usual sample streams (from sandbox systems, security vendors, from VT etc) and equate the number of samples with number of attacks. That means all of the malware that replicates themselves on sandbox systems are seen as different attacks (I would estimate that more than 50% of the samples are from just that because such malware creates thousands of new samples from one run). That also means old malware that is very common to occur in such sample streams, is counted as recent attacks. I think we should take this with a grain of salt. If someone has a statista account and access to the source, it would be great to know. [/QUOTE]
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