2018 Mid-Year Update - Cyber Threat Report

SonicWall have released a mid-year update of their 2018 Cyber Threat Report.

Highlights from the mid-year report include:

• More than 5.99 billion total malware attacks, up 102 percent, in the first six months of 2018
• Ransomware back in big way, 181.5 million attacks since January, a 229 percent year-to-date increase
• Encrypted threats up 275 percent from last year
• Company’s Real-Time Deep Memory InspectionTM (RTDMI) technology now stops Spectre chip-based attacks
• RTDMI stopped more than 12,300 never-before-seen variants in 2018

Read a copy of the report here or view real-time attack data here.