12 Types of Malware Threat and How to Prevent Them

In today’s digital world, with modern businesses relying heavily on the internet for everything from ecommerce to online communication, it’s imperative to take online security seriously. Research from Kaspersky shows that in 2019 alone, the firm's products repelled 975,491,360 attacks, with some 24,610,126 unique malicious objects identified and almost one in five computer users worldwide (19.8%) subject to at least one malware attack.

What is malware?

Malware is a wide-ranging term, but it essentially describes any type of software designed to infiltrate your machine and steal sensitive information, compromise software or simply wreak havoc, and there are a great many families of malware that you need to be aware of and be sufficiently protected against.