Dark Reading: How To Detect Zero-Day Malware And Limit Its Impact

An increasing percentage of malware has never been seen before. Here are some tips for stopping it

Nov 08, 2012

[Excerpted from "How to Detect Zero-Day Malware and Limit Its Impact," a new, free report posted this week on Dark Reading's Advanced Threats Tech Center.]

It was never easy to keep ahead of the cyber bad guys, but with the recent uptick in zero-day malware, things are only getting harder.

Indeed, the malware landscape is changing dramatically, as attackers seek to take advantage of automated construction kits to generate several thousand malware variants at once. Security experts estimate that more than 70,000 new instances of malware are being released each day. While traditional antivirus products are generally effective at detecting and blocking "known bad" samples, they are challenged to keep up with the rapidly increasing volume of malware we have been seeing.

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