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| Panda Security’s Collective Intelligence Cloud-Scans More Than 200 Million Files- Since its launch in 2007, Panda Security’s system for automatically scanning, detecting, classifying and disinfecting malware has processed more than 200 million individual files.
By: Neil Martin - Panda Security - There are approximately 82 million malware samples in circulation today. By the end of 2010, the total number of malware strains reached 62 million. Bracknell, November 10th, 2011 Collective Intelligence backend servers, the engine of Panda Security’s cloud security solutions, have reached 200 million files processed. Collective Intelligence is Panda’s exclusive technology that automatically detects, scans, classifies and disinfects 99.4 percent of all new malware received every day at PandaLabs. The system has now processed over 200 million files since its launch, 40 percent of which were malware. Between January and September this year, this system has processed 19.9 million new malware specimens (including new threats and variants of existing families), the same amount as in the first ten months of 2010. Panda Security’s database currently stores 81.9 million malware samples, 24.2 percent of which have been created in the first nine months of 2011. These figures show cyber-criminals’ Collective Intelligence, Panda Security’s pioneering cloud-based technology, allows the company to offer cloud-based solutions to home users and companies alike. This internationally acclaimed protection model offers all users a series of key benefits: investment costs reduced by 50 percent, reduced local server and desktop resource consumption and greater overall protection in real time. Thanks to this system, Panda Security was the first company to bring cloud-based solutions to the market: * - Panda ActiveScan http://www.pandasecurity.com/ * - For home users, cloud scanning was implemented in the 2008 consumer solutions, and in the first antivirus designed specifically to protect from the cloud, Panda Cloud Antivirus (www.cloudantivirus.com) * - For businesses, cloud-based scanning was offered through Panda Cloud Protection http://cloudprotection.pandasecurity.com in November 2009, delivering protection for email, servers and desktops. These services include Panda Cloud Office Protection, Panda Cloud Email Protection and Panda Cloud Internet Protection. Additionally, all the solutions can be delivered through the SaaS (Security-as- Millions of users now benefit from Collective Intelligence Since its launch, millions of users around the world have experienced the benefits that Collective Intelligence delivers. With the increased detection capacity of Collective Intelligence, and due to ever-increasing cyber-criminal activity, the system has detected that 43.10 percent of computers scanned were infected with active or latent malware. Countries with the Most infected PCs (%s) The ranking of the top countries with the most infections is led by China (62.6), followed by Taiwan (53.75) and Turkey (50.6), well above the world average (43.10 percent). The graph below shows the 20 countries with the highest rates of malware infection in the first nine months of 2011: Image available: http://prensa.pandasecurity.com/ Country China 62.6% Taiwan Turkey Russian Federation Brazil Poland Costa Rica 41.79% Argentina United States France Average Italy 38.08% Spain 37.70% Finland Colombia Chile 36.99% Peru 36.78% Hungary Venezuela Guatemala Portugal Countries with the Least infected PCs (%s) On the other end of the spectrum, Sweden garnered the lowest detection rate (23.35 percent), followed by Switzerland (28.9 percent), Norway (29.67 percent) and Germany (30.88 percent). The graph below shows the countries with the lowest infection rates. It is interesting to note that all of them are European nations with the exception of Japan and Australia: The Top 10 most prevalent malware specimens account for 49.97% of all infections. However, this can be a bit misleading as many of the entries on the list are generic detections (detected by Collective Intelligence) Image available: http://prensa.pandasecurity.com/ As for malware distribution by type between January and September 2011, Trojans again have accounted for most new threats (73.47 percent), followed by viruses and worms. The ‘Other’ category includes items detected as dialers, hacking tools, jokes, PUPs, security risks and tracking cookies. Image available: http://prensa.pandasecurity.com/ About PandaLabs Since 1990, PandaLabs, Panda Security’s malware research laboratory, has been working to detect and classify malware in order to protect consumers and companies against new Internet threats. To do so, PandaLabs uses Collective Intelligence, a cloud-based proprietary system that leverages the knowledge gathered from Panda’s user community to automatically detect, analyse and classify the more than 73,000 new malware strains that appear every day. This automated malware classification is complemented through the work of an international team with researchers specialized each in a specific type of malware (viruses, worms, Trojans, spyware and other attacks) to provide global coverage. Get more information about PandaLabs and subscribe to its blog news feed at http://www.pandalabs.com. For more information: Visit our main website http://www.pandasecurity.com/ Neil Martin neil.martin@ Tel. 0844 335 3791 Panda Security (UK) is part of the Panda Security SRL company group. © Panda End
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