Security News > 2023 > May > Malicious content lurks all over the web

On average, five out of every 1,000 enterprise users attempted to download malware in Q1 2023, and new malware families and variants represented 72% of those malware downloads.

As the top two malware types, Trojans accounted for 60% of malware downloads in Q1 and phishing downloads accounted for 13%. Evaluation of primary communication channels for attackers.

Of the new malware executables analyzed by Netskope that communicated with external hosts, 85% did so over port 80 and 67% did so over port 443.

Cloud and web malware trends 55% of HTTP/HTTPS malware downloads came from cloud apps, up from 35% for the same period one year earlier.

Only a small fraction of total web malware downloads were delivered over web categories traditionally considered risky.

Instead, downloads are spread out among a wide variety of sites, with content servers responsible for the largest slice, at 7.7%. As enterprises work to defend against the onslaught of malware, cross-functional collaboration across multiple teams is required, including network, security operations, incident response, leadership, and even individual contributors.

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https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/05/03/malware-downloads-q1-2023/