An estimate shared by cybersecurity company Kaspersky reports that almost 3,80,000 of these malicious files were detected daily in 2021, and 122 million harmful files were detected in 2022, an increase of six million from the year before.
“Considering how quickly the threat landscape is expanding its boundaries and the number of new devices appearing in users' daily lives, it's quite possible that next year we'll be detecting not 4,00,000 malicious files per day, but half a million,” says Vladimir Kuskov, head of anti-malware research, Kaspersky.
"Even more dangerous is that, with the development of Malware-as-a-Service, any novice fraudster can now attack devices without any technical knowledge in programming," Kuskov continues.
The research conducted by Kaspersky indicates that the estimated number of ransomwares detected every day grew by 181%, encrypting 9,500 files every day. This is in comparison to the year 2021.
Kaspersky as well detected a 142 percent hike in the number of Downloaders, which are malware programs designed in order to install malicious and unwanted applications in a device. Windows, among all platforms, remained the most common platform used by threat actors that are affected by the threat families.
Experts at Kaspersky, on the other hand, have detected 3,20,000 new malicious files that are responsible for attacks on Windows devices, in 2022, the report added.
Moreover, the Kaspersky experts have witnessed a 10 percent hike in the distribution of malicious files, attacking Android platforms and devices each day in the year 2022.
