2007 - boom year of malicious code

Security firm F-Secure said in 2007 that it was a boom year of malicious code. The number of malicious code detected this year is equivalent to the total number of 20 years ago.

Mikko Hypponen - F-Secure's director of research - said F-Secure has collected a total of 250,000 malicious samples over the 1986 to 2006 period. But it is also the number of malicious codes discovered by the company only this year.

Although the statistics of malicious code may vary between security firms, it depends largely on the popularity of the anti-malware software offered by the company and the user's usage process but most firms. Security has confirmed that 2007 is really a time of explosion of malicious code.

Symantec said that from January through June this year alone, the company detected a total of 212,101 new malware - an increase of 185% over the same period last year.

' The strong growth of malicious code shows us something that hackers are creating more and more types of malicious software to help them perform dark purposes for personal gain or to steal people's information. use , 'said Hypponen.

In the market for creative nature malware seems to be repelled mainly by manufacturing hackers as more and more new variants of malicious code have appeared before. Of course these variations are equally dangerous. The goal of hackers is to take the number to 'suppress' security companies.

At the same time, there is a growing presence of malicious code development tools. Even people without much knowledge can now easily create new malicious code. '

Hoang Dung