The lately published Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2018 demonstrates there has been a 43% rise in ransomware detections and a 44% rise in backdoor detections in the first 10 months of 2018, emphasizing the increasing danger from malware.
Kaspersky Lab is now coping with 346,000 new malevolent files every day and has so far found more than 21.64 million malevolent objects in 2018.
Backdoor detections rose from 2.27 million to 3.26 million in 2018 and ransomware detections are up from 2.2 million detections to 3.13 million. Backdoors comprise 3.7% of malevolent files examined by Kaspersky Lab and ransomware comprises 3.5%.
The biggest cyberthreat in 2018 was banking Trojans, which comprised over half of all malevolent file detections. The main danger was the Zbot Trojan, which was used in 26.3% of attacks, after that the Nymaim Trojan (19.8%), and the SpyEye backdoor (14.7%). 7 of the top ten most widespread malware groups were banking Trojans. The remaining three were backdoors.
Financial wrongdoing, such as the theft of banking identifications and credit card numbers, makes up the majority of attacks, even though APT groups tend to focus on company data theft.
There were fewer new ransomware groups developed in 2018 than 2017, but even though there has been a reduction in ransomware development, the danger of attack is still substantial. The worst month of the year for ransomware attacks was September when 132,047 occurrences were seen. Over the preceding ten months, 11 new ransomware groups have been found and there have been 39,842 changes made to current ransomware variations. As per Kaspersky Lab, in the previous year, 220,000 company users and 27,000 SMB users have been infected with ransomware and had files encrypted.
WannaCry variations were the most generally used, comprising 29.3% of infections, followed by common ransomware (11.4%), and GandCrab ransomware (6.67%).
Banking Trojans and malevolent software invented to attack ATMs and POS systems will carry on to be the main dangers in 2019, as per the report.