Malware attacks rising thanks to leaked exploits

Malware threats have reached dangerously high levels, according to a new report that highlights the sheer scale of threats facing businesses today. The latest Kaspersky Lab Malware report, covering the three months of Q2 2017, claims that Kaspersky Lab's products blocked more than five million attacks involving exploits in this time period. In total, Kaspersky's products detected and repelled 342,566,061 malicious attacks from online resources located in 191 countries, with 17.26 percent of all Internet-connected computers in the world facing at least one attack. This included a rise in crypto-ransomware attacks, which were blocked on 246,675 unique computers, compared to 240,799… [Continue Reading]