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1McAfee Report Finds New Malware Evolving to Evade ‘Sandboxes’
The anti-malware business has long been a ‘cat-and-mouse’ game with hackers increasingly trying to outmaneuver security vendor technologies. According to the McAfee Labs June 2017 Threat report, the most common evasion technique now used by malware to avoid being detected is anti-sandboxing. Sandboxes are commonly used by security researchers and technologies to isolate running processes and limit risks. Overall, McAfee Labs reported that in the first quarter of 2017 the volume of new malware variants it detected grew on a quarterly basis. New ransomware variant detection also grew in the first quarter, according to McAfee Labs. In this slideshow, eWEEK takes a look at some of the highlights of the 83-page June 2017 McAfee Labs Threat Report.
2Latest Malware Evades Sandboxing
3Fareit Password Malware Still a Threat
4New Malware Detection Volume Rebounds
5Total Mobile Malware Samples Tops 16 Million
6New macOS Malware Declines
7Ransomware Continues to Grow
8New Phishing URLs Decline
9Gamut Botnet Generates 54 Percent of Spam Volume
10U.S. Leads the World in Hosting Botnet Servers
While botnets can reside anywhere in the world, more botnet command and control servers are located in the U.S. than anywhere else in the world.