74% of Q1 Malware Was Undetectable Via Signature-Based Tools
Dark Reading
Jai Vijayan
Organizations relying on traditional signature-based tools to detect security threats would likely have missed roughly three-quarters of malware samples that hit their networks and systems last quarter, a new analysis shows.
WatchGuard Technologies recently analyzed threat data collected from customer networks during the first quarter of 2021 and found 74% of threats detected were zero-day malware for which no anti-virus signatures were available at time of malware release. As a result, the malware was capable of bypassing signature-based threat detection tools and breaching enterprise systems.
The level of zero-day malware detections...