WatchGuard’s Q3 2017 Internet Security Report

In addition to analyses of the top computer and network threats from Q3, WatchGuard's latest report highlights useful defensive strategies companies can use to protect themselves, an original research project on spear phishing attacks and much more...

Some of the report’s top findings include:

• Scripting attacks account for 68% of all malware hits
• Overall malware numbers increased by a significant margin
• Authentication continues to be a major target for hackers
• Legacy antivirus solutions only missed 24% of new malware (improved from 47% in Q2)
• Suspicious HTML iframes show up in a big way
• WatchGuard’s GAV and APT Blocker blocked over 22 million malware variants and almost 3 million network attacks

WatchGuard’s quarterly Internet Security Report is based on anonymized data from nearly 30,000 active WatchGuard UTM appliances worldwide.

GAV and APT Blocker are both included in the WatchGuard Total Security Suite, for more information or to upgrade your Security Suite contact us now.

To download the complete Q3 2017 report from WatchGuard, click here.