Record ransomware volumes seen in 2017

The latest annual State of Malware Report from Malwarebytes shows that ransomware had a bumper year in 2017, though it began to trend downwards towards the end of the year. Ransomware launched against consumers was up more than 93 percent and ransomware against businesses up 90 percent. As the year end approached though many avenues known for ransomware drops were seen diversifying their payloads with banking Trojans and cryptocurrency miners instead. The report shows an increase of 40 percent in hijackers and 30 percent in spyware detections in 2017. The second half of the year also marked an average of… [Continue Reading]