{"id":18445,"date":"2012-01-19T16:44:19","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T06:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/power-up.space\/?p=18445"},"modified":"2012-01-19T16:44:19","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T06:44:19","slug":"malware-to-rise-by-23-per-cent-in-2012-bitdefender-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=18445","title":{"rendered":"Malware to rise by 23 per cent in 2012, Bitdefender study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><em>Malware to increase attacks on android, social networks<\/em><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>SYDNEY &amp; AUCKLAND<\/em> <\/strong>\u2013<strong> January 19, 2012<\/strong> \u2013 Malware will expand by 23 per cent in 2012 to 90,000,000 samples, almost 17 million more than at the end of 2011, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitdefender.com.au\/\">Bitdefender<\/a>\u00ae, the award-winning provider of innovative <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitdefender.com.au\/solutions\/internet-security.html\">antivirus solutions<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The data forms part of E-Threats Landscape Report, which looks ahead at the expected evolution of malware in social media networks including Facebook and Twitter, on mobile devices, and the predicted overall growth of cyber crime.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The report is now available for download at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitdefender.com.au\/news\/#E-Threats Reports\">http:\/\/www.bitdefender.com.au\/news\/#E-Threats Reports<\/a>. It also predicts that much of the new malware and cyber fraud will focus on rapidly growing social networks in 2012, while malware for Android devices will significantly boost the number of threats to smartphones and tablets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe story of 2012 in terms of malware will be one of explosive growth, mostly because of the spread and growing allure of social networks,\u201d said Bitdefender E-Threats Analyst Bogdan Botezatu, who coordinated the report. \u201cAndroid malware will undergo exponential growth, but starting from a much lower base of malware samples.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Landscape Report, compiled from over a year of detection, prevention and removal worldwide, also includes a Top 10 overview of malware in 2011. It covers developments in hacktivism and abuse of digital certificates, and provides a breakdown of spam messages, which accounted for 75.1 per cent of all emails sent worldwide last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malware to increase attacks on android, social networks\u00a0 SYDNEY &amp; AUCKLAND \u2013 January 19, 2012 \u2013 Malware will expand by 23 per cent in 2012 to 90,000,000 samples, almost 17 million more than at the end of 2011, according to Bitdefender\u00ae, the award-winning provider of innovative antivirus solutions.\u00a0 The data forms part of E-Threats Landscape<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=18445\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18448,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18445\/revisions\/18448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}