Of all of 2017, the month of September was the busiest one, while the period between July 2017 and September 2017 saw a 700% increase in ransomware attacks overall, compared to the same period in 2016.<\/p>\n
The security firm says that most of the ransomware detections during the past year came for families like WannaCry, Locky, Cerber, and GlobeImposter.<\/p>\n
Seeing ransomware among Malwarebytes’ top threats of 2017 is no surprise if we remember that 2017 saw three major ransomware outbreaks \u2014WannaCry, NotPetya, BadRabbit\u2014 that made tens of thousands of victims worldwide.<\/p>\n
Despite this, self-spreading ransomware was not such a big problem, and most infections came from mundane spam campaigns and malvertising\/exploit kits.<\/p>\n
The ransomware business declined toward the end of the year<\/strong><\/p>\n While infections continued to grow, Malwarebytes says that towards the end of the year, ransomware’s dominance slowly started to wane, as researchers spotted fewer and fewer families and crooks shifted toward other \u2014old and new\u2014 malware operations.<\/p>\n At the beginning of the year, the domination that ransomware had over the primary infection vectors made it seem like dealing with ransom malware would be the new norm moving forward. However, trends over the last few months have shown a shift away from ransomware. In fact, many mechanisms for distributing malware have either gone back to the old favorites, like banking Trojans and spyware, or moved onto the newer trend of delivering cryptocurrency miners.<\/p>\n Bleeping Computer also noticed the same thing, as during the past few weeks of 2017, our weekly ransomware write-ups have started to contain lesser and lesser entries, an obvious clue that fewer and fewer malware authors were creating new ransomware strains or deploying them in live campaigns.<\/p>\n As for the rest of the malware scene, here are some of the other key findings from\u00a0Malwarebytes’ 2017 State of Malware Report<\/a>:<\/p>\n
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