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90% of unknown malware is delivered via web
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Hass and Associates, Article Number 85258083266 – Edublogs
90% of unknown malware is delivered via web
article code 34912726002HA, hass and associates blog reviews
http://ausooke.
livejournal.
com/2049.
html
A new study of malware takes an unusual approach – instead of analyzing known malware, it analyzes the
unknown malware that traditional defenses miss; and finds that 90% is delivered from the web rather than via
emails.
The study, the modern malware review, was undertaken by Palo Alto Networks drawing on data from
more than 1000 enterprise customers that use its WildFire firewall option.
Wildfire analyzes unknown files; that
is, files that is neither whitelisted nor blacklisted.
It is the unknown files that turned out to be unknown malware
that have been analyzed: some 26,000 samples over a period of 3 months.
90% of the undetected malware is
delivered via web browsing, implying that traditional AV is better at detecting email-borne viruses.
In fact, it
takes AV companies four
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