{"id":17696,"date":"2020-02-11T01:10:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T09:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2020\/02\/11\/news-11431\/"},"modified":"2020-02-11T01:10:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T09:10:05","slug":"news-11431","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2020\/02\/11\/news-11431\/","title":{"rendered":"Malwarebytes Labs releases 2020 State of Malware Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 08:01:00 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Malwarebytes Labs today released the results of our annual study on the state of malware\u2014the 2020 State of Malware Report\u2014and as usual, it&#8217;s a doozy.<\/p>\n<p>From an increase in <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/ransomware\/2019\/08\/ransomware-continues-assault-against-cities-and-businesses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"enterprise-focused threats (opens in a new tab)\">enterprise-focused threats<\/a> to the diversification of sophisticated hacking and stealth techniques, the 2019 threat landscape was shaped by a cybercrime industry that aimed to show it\u2019s all grown up and coming after organizations with increasing vengeance.<\/p>\n<p>The 2020 State of Malware Report features data sets collected from product telemetry, honey pots, intelligence, and other research conducted by <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/authors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Malwarebytes threat analysts and reporters (opens in a new tab)\">Malwarebytes threat analysts and reporters<\/a> to investigate the top threats delivered by cybercriminals to both consumers and businesses in 2019. <\/p>\n<p>Our analysis includes a look at threats to Mac and Windows PCs, Android and iOS, as well as browser-based attacks. In addition, we examined consumer and business detections on threats to specific regions and industries across the globe. Finally, we took a look at the state of data privacy in 2019, including state and federal legislation, as well as the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/please-dont-buy-this\/2019\/12\/please-dont-buy-this-smart-doorbells\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"privacy failures of some big tech companies (opens in a new tab)\">privacy failures of some big tech companies<\/a> in juxtaposition against the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/security-world\/2019\/05\/mozilla-urges-apple-to-make-privacy-a-team-sport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"forward-thinking policies of others (opens in a new tab)\">forward-thinking policies of others<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a sample of what we found:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mac threats increased exponentially in comparison to those against Windows PCs. While overall volume of Mac threats increased year-over-year by more than 400 percent, that number is somewhat impacted by a larger Malwarebytes for Mac userbase in 2019. However, when calculated in threats per endpoint, Macs still outpaced Windows by nearly 2:1.<\/li>\n<li>The volume of global threats against business endpoints has increased by 13 percent year-over-year, with aggressive adware, Trojans, and HackTools leading the pack.<\/li>\n<li>Organizations were once again hammered with <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/cybercrime\/2019\/03\/emotet-revisited-this-pervasive-persistent-threat-is-still-a-danger-to-businesses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Emotet (opens in a new tab)\">Emotet<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/trojans\/2019\/09\/trickbot-adds-new-trick-to-its-arsenal-tampering-with-trusted-texts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"TrickBot (opens in a new tab)\">TrickBot<\/a>, two Trojan-turned-botnets that surfaced in the top five threats for nearly every region of the globe, and in the top detections for the services, retail, and education industries. TrickBot detections in particular increased more than 50 percent over the previous year.<\/li>\n<li>Net new ransomware activity is at an all-time high against businesses, with families such as <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/threat-spotlight\/2019\/12\/threat-spotlight-the-curious-case-of-ryuk-ransomware\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Ryuk (opens in a new tab)\">Ryuk<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/threat-spotlight\/2019\/07\/threat-spotlight-sodinokibi-ransomware-attempts-to-fill-gandcrab-void\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Sodinokibi (opens in a new tab)\">Sodinokibi<\/a> increasing by as much as 543 and 820 percent, respectively.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To learn more about the top threats of the year for Mac, Windows, Android, and the web, as well as the state of data privacy in commerce and legislation, check out the <strong>full 2020 State of Malware Report<\/strong> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/resources.malwarebytes.com\/files\/2020\/02\/2020_State-of-Malware-Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"here (opens in a new tab)\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/reports\/2020\/02\/malwarebytes-labs-releases-2020-state-of-malware-report\/\">Malwarebytes Labs releases 2020 State of Malware Report<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\">Malwarebytes Labs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/reports\/2020\/02\/malwarebytes-labs-releases-2020-state-of-malware-report\/\" target=\"bwo\" >https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/feed\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 08:01:00 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<table cellpadding='10'>\n<tr>\n<td valign='top' align='center'><a href='https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/reports\/2020\/02\/malwarebytes-labs-releases-2020-state-of-malware-report\/' title='Malwarebytes Labs releases 2020 State of Malware Report'><img src='https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/shutterstock_1638232816v2.jpg' border='0'  width='300px'  \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign='top' align='left'>The 2020 State of Malware Report reveals how cybercriminals upped the ante on businesses, Mac threats outpaced PCs, and ransomware continued its targeted, deadly assault with new families in 2019. Learn all this and more in the full report, linked in our blog.<\/p>\n<p>Categories: <\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-categories\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/category\/reports\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Reports<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tags: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/2020-state-of-malware-report\/\" rel=\"tag\">2020 state of malware report<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/adware\/\" rel=\"tag\">adware<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/android\/\" rel=\"tag\">Android<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/android-malware\/\" rel=\"tag\">android malware<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/data-privacy\/\" rel=\"tag\">Data privacy<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/emotet\/\" rel=\"tag\">emotet<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/hacktools\/\" rel=\"tag\">hacktools<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/ios\/\" rel=\"tag\">iOS<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/mac\/\" rel=\"tag\">mac<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/macos\/\" rel=\"tag\">macOS<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/ransomware\/\" rel=\"tag\">ransomware<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/ryuk\/\" rel=\"tag\">ryuk<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/sodinokibi\/\" rel=\"tag\">Sodinokibi<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/state-of-malware\/\" rel=\"tag\">State of Malware<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/state-of-malware-report\/\" rel=\"tag\">state of malware report<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/trickbot\/\" rel=\"tag\">trickbot<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/trojans\/\" rel=\"tag\">Trojans<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/web-threats\/\" rel=\"tag\">web threats<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/windows\/\" rel=\"tag\">windows<\/a><\/p>\n<table width='100%'>\n<tr>\n<td align=right>\n<p><b>(<a href='https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/reports\/2020\/02\/malwarebytes-labs-releases-2020-state-of-malware-report\/' title='Malwarebytes Labs releases 2020 State of Malware Report'>Read more&#8230;<\/a>)<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/reports\/2020\/02\/malwarebytes-labs-releases-2020-state-of-malware-report\/\">Malwarebytes Labs releases 2020 State of Malware Report<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\">Malwarebytes Labs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10488,10378],"tags":[24206,10468,10462,11254,11063,15715,24207,10480,10454,10403,3765,1804,19317,22299,11196,17276,13256,12269,11716,10525],"class_list":["post-17696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malwarebytes","category-security","tag-2020-state-of-malware-report","tag-adware","tag-android","tag-android-malware","tag-data-privacy","tag-emotet","tag-hacktools","tag-ios","tag-mac","tag-macos","tag-ransomware","tag-reports","tag-ryuk","tag-sodinokibi","tag-state-of-malware","tag-state-of-malware-report","tag-trickbot","tag-trojans","tag-web-threats","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}