Security News > 2020 > July > Trojans, backdoors, and trojan-droppers among most analyzed cyberthreats
Almost three quarters of all requests for analysis to Kaspersky's Threat Intelligence Portal were for trojans, backdoors, and droppers.
Organizations and individuals must grapple with a variety of cyberthreats and malware from phishing attacks to ransomware to viruses to trojans and more.
Drilling down further, the research identified trojans as the most common type at 25%, followed by backdoors at 24% and trojan-droppers at 23%. Other types of malware that have been identified at the portal are ransomware, adware, spyware, and downloaders.
Trojans are typically the most widespread type of malware backdoors and trojan-droppers are not as common as they account for only 7% and 3%, respectively, of all malicious files blocked by Kaspersky.
"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%, but it is traditionally among the most widespread threats detected by endpoint solutions," Denis Parinov, Kaspersky's acting head of threats monitoring and heuristic detection, said in a press release.