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For security teams, there was a lot more of everything to defend against in the final quarter of 2020 compared to previous months.
PowerShell threats grew 208%; Microsoft Office malware increased by 199%, while malware targeting mobile devices rose 118% between the third and fourth quarters of 2020. And COVID-19 related malware and threats surged 114%.
A new analysis by McAfee of threat data during the period showed similar increases on several other fronts as well. The volume of malware threats detected on enterprise networks rose 10% to 648 threats per minute compared to 588 in Q3, 2020; ransomware once again grew in volume, this time by 69% and adversaries hammered cloud user accounts belonging to McAfee s customers with an astounding 3.1 million attacks in the last quarter of 2020.
Malicious PowerShell Use, Attacks on Office 365
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