Security News > 2020 > February > FireEye Spotted Over 500 New Malware Families in 2019
FireEye's incident response division Mandiant observed more than 500 new malware families last year, the company revealed in its M-Trends 2020 report released this week.
FireEye analyzed 1.1 million malware samples per day in 2019 and it tracked a total of 1,268 malware families.
While a majority of the new malware impacted either Windows or multiple platforms, the company has still seen tens of new malware families targeting macOS or Linux.
FireEye says the global median dwell time - this is the number of days an attacker is present on the victim's network before they are detected - has continued to drop.
"FireEye Mandiant has seen organizations largely improving their level of cyber security sophistication, but combatting the latest threats is still a huge challenge for them," said Jurgen Kutscher, executive VP of service delivery at FireEye.