The 2019 State of Malware report follows the top 10 global threats for consumers and businesses, as well as top threats by region and by corporate industry verticals. It also follows noteworthy distribution techniques for the year, and predicts top trends for 2019. In 2018, we saw a shift in ransomware attack techniques from malvertising and exploits that deliver ransomware as a payload to targeted, manual attacks. The shotgun approach was replaced with brute force, as witnessed in the most successful SamSam campaigns of the year. The bigger payoff was in making victims out of businesses instead of individuals.”]