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cloud infrastructures to exploit its computational power and multiply profits for threat actors

• Multi-platform attacks on the rise – Up until the end of 2017, multi-platform malware was rare. However, the rise in the number of consumer connected devices and the growing market share of non-Windows operating systems has led to an increase in cross-platform malware. Campaign operators implement various techniques in order to take control over the campaigns’ different infected platforms

• Mobile malware spread via the supply chain – In the first half of this year, there have been several incidences where mobile malware that has not been downloaded from a malicious URL but instead arrived already installed within the device. In addition, there was an increase in applications readily available on app stores that were actually malware under disguise, including banking trojans, adware and sophisticated remote access trojans( RATs)

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The ThreatCloud database holds over 250 million addresses analysed for bot discovery, more than 11 million malware signatures and over 5.5 million infected websites and identifies millions of malware types daily. •

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