Malware and Ransomeware analysis in 2015

In 2015, there were 1,966,324 registered notifications about attempted malware infections that aimed to steal money via online access to bank accounts.Ransomware programs were detected on753,684 computers of unique users; 179,209 computers were targeted by encryption ransomware.Kaspersky Lab’s web antivirus detected121,262,075 unique malicious objects: scripts, exploits, executable files, etc.Kaspersky Lab solutions repelled 798,113,087attacks launched from online resources located all over the world.34.2% of user computers were subjected to at least one web attack over the year.To carry out their attacks, cybercriminals used6,563,145 unique hosts.24% of web attacks neutralized by Kaspersky Lab products were carried out using malicious web resources located in the US.Kaspersky Lab’s antivirus solutions detected a total of 4,000,000 unique malicious and potentially unwanted objects.