Security News > 2020 > November > How to combat the latest and most aggressive botnets and malware
2020-11-12 14:36
As detailed in its "Q3 2020 Threat Landscape Report," Nuspire discovered more than 3.6 million malware events over the third quarter, an increase of 128% from the second quarter.
More than 43,000 malware variants were seen each day, with almost 1,200 unique ones found for the entire quarter.
The top three malware variants targeted Microsoft Office with trojans and exploits designed to infect systems through malicious macros.
Among the top five malware variants, Emotet continued to prove problematic last quarter.
Legacy AV is strictly signature based and can only detect already known variants of malware.
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