52 percent of new viruses only last 24 hours
Every day, PandaLabs receives nearly 37,000 samples of new viruses, worms, Trojans and other types of Internet threats, 52 percent of which (that is 19,240 on average) spread and try to infect users for just 24 hours. After this, they become inactive and harmless as they are replaced by other, new variants that join the list of new specimens in circulation.
The reason for this lies in hackers’ motivation to profit financially from malware. To do this, they try to ensure their creations go unnoticed by users and security solution vendors.
Just 24 hours after they put any strain of malware into circulation, they will modify its code so that it can continue to spread without being detected by security companies.
According to Luis Corrons, Technical Director of PandaLabs, “This is a never-ending race which, unfortunately, the hackers are still winning. We have to wait until we get hold of the malware they have created to be able to analyze, classify and combat it. In this race, vendors that work with traditional, manual analysis techniques are too slow to vaccinate clients, as the distribution and infection span is very short.”