Security News > 2020 > April > Malware Risks Triple on WFH Networks: Experts Offer Advice

Home office networks are 3.5 times more likely than corporate networks to be infected by malware, according a report from BitSight.

Trickbot malware was observed at least 3.75 times more frequently on home office networks than corporate networks.

What we wanted to do was sort of measure what different risks these networks are facing and those devices now on these networks versus the traditional corporate network.

This process was, we looked at the devices observed on a corporate network and found what other networks these devices are most commonly seen on and going through that process, using that method, you're going to get a lot of cellular networks as I just mentioned, you're going to get situations where Internet Service Providers configure their own networks, where they put many consumer networks behind a single IP address so many homes behind a single IP address, for example.

Now can you talk a little bit about the main, I guess, risks that were uncovered between the home networks and corporate networks? Especially from kind of the eyes of a cyber criminal, who might be interested in launching these attacks, what were some of the main takeaways in terms of the risks that you guys discovered?

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https://threatpost.com/malware-risks-triple-for-remote-workers/154735/