Security News > 2020 > July > Trojans, Backdoors and Droppers: The Most-Analyzed Malware

Trojans, backdoors and droppers, oh my: These are the top three malware types being analyzed by threat intelligence teams, according to statistics out on Thursday.

According to anonymized statistics from requests to the Kaspersky Threat Intelligence Portal, almost three quarters of the analyzed malicious files fell into those three categories.

"However, backdoors and trojan-droppers are not as common, only making up 7 percent and 3 percent of all malicious files blocked by Kaspersky endpoint products." It added, "a number of requests were related to backdoors on the Linux and Android operating systems. Such malware families are of interest for security researchers, but their levels are relatively low in comparison to threats targeting Microsoft Windows."

Endpoint protection doesn't allow an end user to open a malicious email or follow a malicious link, preventing backdoors from reaching the user's computer," according to the writeup.

"We have noticed that the number of free requests to the Kaspersky Threat Intelligence Portal to check viruses, or pieces of code that insert themselves in over other programs, is less than 1 percent, but it is traditionally among the most widespread threats detected by endpoint solutions," said Denis Parinov, acting head of threats monitoring and heuristic detection, in a media statement.

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