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 […]
