The Malware Plague

Malicious software—commonly referred to as malware—is used by threat actors to perform malicious activities on a host system. These malicious activities include compromising the corporate network, identity theft, and data exfiltration. The evolution of connected devices and the fact that it has become practically impossible to run an enterprise without a computer has increased the volume of threat actors leveraging malware as part of a cyber attack. Malware can come in the form of scripts or executable code. There are many different classes of malware, but the most well known is by far computer viruses and computer Trojans. Threat actors no longer need to find their own vulnerabilities or build their own malware. Instead, they can procure them through the dark web. There has been an increased demand for sophisticated malware that is used by state...