Malware Reaches 'All-Time High' in Q3, McAfee Reports
New malware reached an "all-time high" of 57.6 million new samples in Q3, a 10 percent gain over the previous quarter, McAfee Labs said Monday. New ransomware rose 36 percent, boosted by an increase in Android screen-locking threats. Top Q3…
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data breaches tracked included Equifax; a Verizon customer support supplier using a compromised server; and Apache Struts, a component of many websites and which experienced a coding vulnerability. The "Faceliker Trojan" malware, which manipulate Facebook to artificially "like" content by infecting users' browsers when they visit malicious websites, which McAfee first reported in September, also showed a Q3 gain.