Panda Security Spotted Over 80 Million New Malware Samples in 2015

[frogboy]

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http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/panda-security-300-million-malware/

Over a quarter of all the malware ever recorded appeared in 2015, according to startling new statistics from Panda Security.

The Spanish security vendor’s PandaLabs researchers claimed to have seen a staggering 84 million new malware samples last year, which equates to a daily average of 230,000 and marks an increase of nine million from 2014.

The total number of malware samples discovered by the firm is 304 million, putting last year's batch at 28% of all the malware it has ever recorded, and it’s only going to grow even higher, according to PandaLabs technical director, Luis Corrons.

He told Infosecurity via email it was time for IT teams to adopt a “change of mentality” and advised firms to invest in endpoint detection and response (EDR) technologies.

“As Gartner said in its recent report EDR ‘has emerged to augment security and more rapidly respond to inevitable advanced attacks that evade existing antivirus solutions’,” he added.

“As a CISO, having the ability to know what processes are running in each endpoint/server, if their behavior is proper, with forensic capabilities in case a breach happens, is a game changer. It will give you the knowledge and facts to act fast and prevent/mitigate new threats in your organization.”

Trojans were once again the main source of malware (52%), well ahead of viruses (23%), worms (13%), PUPs (11%), and spyware (2%).

However, it was infamous ransomware Cryptolocker that appeared most often in cyber attacks, the firm claimed.


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[Andrew999]

I recon PUPS are more popular these days than Trojans it seems like it is hard to get infected by trojans/rootkits.

 

[omidomi]

wow cg to Panda Lab

 

[kev216]

That's a lot

 

[DracusNarcrym]

Impressive numbers, however I believe we have arrived to a time where all statistical numbers are trivial, since it can be expected that all types of attacks are going to constantly, and exponentially, increase in the future.
What we should be concerned about is the method of operation of those attacks, which techniques are employed in them, and other factors, so that we can better understand and define the unconventional nature of those attacks, with the purpose of developing and implementing effective countermeasures in order to counter them.

 

[SloppyMcFloppy]

Meanwhile, Malwarebytes claimed they have remove over 500 million malwares. And Kaspersky claim they have blocked 100M malware in 2015(exaggerate).

 

[DracusNarcrym]

Meanwhile, Malwarebytes claimed they have remove over 500 million malwares. And Kaspersky claim they have blocked 100M malware in 2015(exaggerate).

Actually, this could actually be true. Malware is usually so small in size and so easy to encounter for users with unsafe browsing habits, so security applications might be detecting a lot of samples.

 

[jamescv7]

I think considering that PUP are at least numbers because of influences probably like partnership, legitimate programs' behavior same like suspicious [false alarm], and not a high risk on system.

Although that should be balance besides to worms, spyware and other few stuffs to collect.

At the end of day, even they can collect millions of samples however techniques in order to prevent them leaves a huge gap since we can compare on a sickness that can spread swiftly than prevent with the use of medicine.