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Over 1500% Increase in New, Unique Malware Highlights Growing Security Complexity, According to WatchGuard Biannual Threat Report
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With a view to the second half of 2025, Watchguard Technologies is recording a rapid increase in evasive and encrypted malware in the current Internet Security report. This trend marks the need for proactive and holistic security approaches. Based on anonymized, aggregated threat information from Watchguard's network, endpoint, and DNS filter solutions, the report makes it clear that both volume and sophistication of malware attacks are increasi…
1,500 percent increase in new, unique malware highlights growing complexity
In 2025, new malware increased every quarter, leading up to a 1,548 percent spike from Q3 to Q4 alone. At the same time, 23 percent of detected malware evaded traditional signature-based detection, effectively qualifying as zero-day threats. A new report, based on anonymized, aggregated threat intelligence from WatchGuard Technologies' network security, endpoint, and DNS filtering products, finds that with over 15 times more never-before-seen ma…
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