Report december 2017

Welcome to the McAfee Labs Threats Report. In this edition, we highlight the statistics gathered by McAfee Labs in Q3 of 2017. The biggest number of the quarter is our count of new malware, which reached an all-time high of 57.6 million new samples, an increase of 10% from Q2. The total count in the McAfee Labs sample database is now more than 780 million. New ransomware rose by 36% this quarter, largely from widespread Android screen-locking malware. The easy availability of exploit kits and dark web sources fuel the rapid creation of new malware.