Thenumber of online threats will have grown tenfold by the end of 2007,according to researchers at anti-malware firm Kaspersky..
Kasperskyanalysts said at Infosec Europe 2008 that new malicious programsrecorded on the internet, including viruses, worms and Trojans,amounted to 2.2 million in 2007, representing a fourfold increase onthe 535,131 recorded in 2006.
David Emm, senior technologyconsultant at Kaspersky Labs, predicted that the year-end results for2008 will demonstrate a very different trend.
The overall volumeof detected malware reached 354GB in 2007, and many leading antivirusexperts called for urgent measures this huge increase in malware withthe utmost urgency.
"In addition to the quantity, the quality of malicious programs is alsoimproving," said Emm.
"Newand more complex samples such as the notorious Storm worm are emergingthat demonstrate a wide range of hostile behaviour and distributionmethods."
Kaspersky added around 250,000 new signatures to itsantivirus databases in 2007 but, according to its forecast, one millionnew signatures will be added in 2008.
"With the help of newtechnologies it will be possible for a fourfold increase in the numberof new signatures to combat the tenfold increase in the number of newmalicious programs," explained Emm.
"These technologies allowone signature to successfully neutralise dozens or even hundreds ofdifferent types of malicious programs."
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