Panda reports 82,000 new malware attacks per day

According to a report from Panda Security, 20 percent of all of the malware that's ever existed was created in 2013. They report a total of 30 million new malware threats in one year, which works out to about 82,000 a day.



More than seven in 10 of the new threats in 2013 were Trojans. Panda discovered more than 21 million new Trojan variants last year. The rest of the break down is as follows: worms (13.3 percent), viruses (8.49 percent), adware/spyware (6.93 percent). The rest was a miniscule amount that they just lumped together as "other."

China, it turns out, was the most infected country. 54.03 percent of the total detected infections happened in China. That might be blamed on the fact that XP is so heavily used there.

Targeted attacks, such as the one that took data from Target, as well as those attacks against Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft, fell victim because of exploiting an unpatched Java vulnerability.

Source code for some Adobe products was compromised and in examining the exploit, researchers found that nearly two million accounts—about five percent of the total—used the ridiculously insecure password of “123456”. Another half million users relied on “123456789,” and nearly 350,000 accounts simply used “password” as the password.

As to mobile attacks, Panda found that Android is by far the primary target of mobile malware developers.

You can view the complete report here.