Cybercriminals have taken the fast lane to thieving and plundering, creating more than 20 million fresh strains of malware in the third quarter of the year, which translates into a rate of 227,747 new samples per day.
Most of these do not pose a risk for users with a reputable antivirus application guarding their computer, but the sheer number of malicious items being spilled in the wild on a daily basis is overwhelming.
Trojans rule over other malware types
Researchers with Panda Security made a report for the latest quarter of the year and found that most of the threats recorded through their systems were Trojans, accounting for 78.08% of the total number of samples, which does not come as a surprise because this category of malware encompasses a multitude of threats, ranging from backdoors, rootkits, infostealers, malware dowloaders and droppers, to ransomware and spyware.
