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McAfee Research Blog

The State Of Malware - Summer 2008

August 20th, 2008

What has been hot this summer, and what not? How are things evolving compared to summer of last year?

We’ve taken a look into recent malware incidents, new vulnerabilities being exploited in-the-wild, and compared the evolution of malware types and the usage of malicious techniques in “mainstream” malware families nowadays.The amount of password-stealing malware, for example, has grown by another 70 percent in nothing but one year.

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Sounds interesting? Please find the results summarized in our paper “The State Of Malware - Summer 2008“.


Author: Anti-Malware Team

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