Five Years of Hardware and Software Threat Evolution

Report provides five-year threat retrospective, GPU malware assessment, and techniques for exfiltrating data from corporate networks. Ransomware continues to grow very rapidly with the number of new ransomware samples rising in Q2 2015. Intel Security foresaw threats targeting hardware and firmware components and threatening runtime integrity. Five-year analysis suggests: We are seeing just the beginnings of attacks and breaches against IoT devices. We attribute the increase to fast-growing new families such as CTBocker, CTLocker, CryptoWall, and CryptoWall.”]

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