In September we added 1.6 million malware to our database. With these new entries, our malware collection surpassed 70 million samples. The five million new samples in the third quarter represent approximately 55,000 samples per day, 2,300 per hour, or 38 per minute. To get a sense of these threats, I examined one day at Read more…
On July 1 we released the results of our S.P.A.M (Spammed Persistently All Month) Experiment, in which 50 people from around the world surfed the Web unprotected for 30 days. By taking part in the experiment, participants were given permission to go where most Internet users would not dare, in order to discover how much Read more…
As I was recently asked about botnet figures, I revisited our collections to establish some trends in this area. In 2004 and 2005, bots were placed in a separate group of their own, separate from viruses and Trojans. Their names often ended with « bot » (W32/Sdbot, W32/Spybot, W32/Gaobot”¦). Based on the number of separate Read more…
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