Threat Awareness – Multipurpose Malware Becoming Increasingly Popular to Deploy

Help Net Security has written an article covering research by Picus Security which found that multipurpose malware – or malware with multiple malicious capabilities – is becoming increasingly more popular to create and deploy. Researchers analyzed over 550,000 malware samples and mapped each one’s capabilities to the cyber kill chain. Additionally, they found that the “average malware leverages 11 different tactics, techniques, and procedures” from the MITRE ATT&CK® Framework, while one-third of malware leverages over 20. A quarter of all malware includes the ability to encrypt data. These findings demonstrate the increased prevalence of malware with multiple ways to threaten a network once it has been installed. Read more at Help Net Security.