Security News > 2020 > February > Researchers observed a 125% increase in malware targeting Windows 7

For the 2020 Webroot Threat Report, researchers analyzed samples from more than 37 billion URLs, 842 million domains, 4 billion IP addresses, 31 million active mobile apps, and 36 billion file behavior records.

Surge in malware targeting Windows 7 93.6 percent of malware seen was unique to a single PC - the highest rate ever observed.

85 percent of threats hide in one of four locations: %temp%, %appdata%, %cache%, and %windir%, with more than half of threats on business PCs hiding in %temp% folders.

IP addresses associated with Windows exploits grew by 360 percent, with the majority of exploits targeting out-of-date operating systems.

Of the infected consumer devices, more than 35 percent were infected more than three times, and nearly 10 percent encountered six or more infections.

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