Date:28/09/16
Every day, more than three hundred thousand malware samples appear in the world information space - said during a special press event the head of strategic projects of Kaspersky Lab Andrew Yarnykh.
According to the expert, over the past ten years, the scale of cyber-attacks has increased by more than two hundred times.
“In 2006, the number of viruses that appeared every day didn’t exceed one and a half thousand.
In 2016, the figure was already three hundred and ten thousand,”- said Yarnykh, adding that in 1994, new computer viruses appeared every hour, in 2006 - every minute, and in 2016 - every second.
Especially high threat viruses pose for the banking sector of the global information web. Thus, in the second quarter of this year, software products of Kaspersky Lab prevented attempts of theft of funds on more than one million computers, according to Planet-today.ru.
More than 300 thousand malware samples appear every day
Every day, more than three hundred thousand malware samples appear in the world information space - said during a special press event the head of strategic projects of Kaspersky Lab Andrew Yarnykh.According to the expert, over the past ten years, the scale of cyber-attacks has increased by more than two hundred times.
“In 2006, the number of viruses that appeared every day didn’t exceed one and a half thousand.
In 2016, the figure was already three hundred and ten thousand,”- said Yarnykh, adding that in 1994, new computer viruses appeared every hour, in 2006 - every minute, and in 2016 - every second.
Especially high threat viruses pose for the banking sector of the global information web. Thus, in the second quarter of this year, software products of Kaspersky Lab prevented attempts of theft of funds on more than one million computers, according to Planet-today.ru.
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