Dark Reading: Microsoft Studies 10 Years Of Malware And Threats

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Special report maps malware evolution, and how the least-infected regions keep botnets, other threats at bay

Mar 05, 2012
By Kelly Jackson Higgins

RSA CONFERENCE 2012 -- San Francisco, Calif. -- A lot can happen in 10 years, and that's an understatement when it comes to malware: According to new data released by Microsoft this week, the number of malware variants went from 1,000 in 1991 to millions in 2011.

In celebration of the 10-year anniversary of the launch of its Trustworthy Computing initiative, Microsoft published a special edition of its Security Intelligence Report (SIR).

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