As the world secures itself, so do crims: Encrypted malware on the rise, warns Sonicwall

As the world secures itself, so do crims: Encrypted malware on the rise, warns Sonicwall

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Scanning of random ports and the use of encrypted malware by online criminals is on the rise, according to a threat report by Sonicwall.


By the end of 2018, around 20 per cent of all malware attacks (based on Sonicwall’s sampling of what it says were 700 million such intrusions) were coming through non-standard ports – a sum which had decreased by 13 per cent compared to 2018, it said.


The company explained to The Register that “non standard” meant ports which are not in routine use by other programs, such as ports 80 and 443 for one’s web browser.


“For the first half of 2019, that share dipped to 13 per cent globally due to below-normal volume in January (8 per cent) and February (11 per cent),” Sonicwall chief exec Bill Conner told The Regis ..

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