Researchers detected 400 million malware infections in April 2020, more than 10 million daily

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Researchers detected 400 million malware infections in April 2020
May 10, 2020
https://www.hackread.com/400-million-malware-infection-in-april-2020/

Researchers have released the latest statistics on worldwide malware infection trends during the last 30 days, and the results are quite alarming especially for educational institutions and the business sector.

According to Atlas VPN, the firm behind compiling these trends, in the past 30 days, about 404 million malware worldwide infections have been identified. This suggests cybercriminals carried out at least 10 million infections per day. Surprisingly, over 64% of the attacks were targeted against educational institutions.

It is noted that the rate of daily infections in April kept fluctuating between 10 to 16 million cases per day, such as, on 1st April 2020, there were roughly 12 million infections registered globally while the rate dropped significantly on April 5 with 10 million daily infections, the company’s blog post said. The rate peaked again reaching the highest number of infections on 16 April with 16 million infections registered in a day.
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