Ransomware Jumped 58 Percent in Q2

McAfee Threat Labs Report also zooms in on GPU malware and looks back on the first five years of the Intel-McAfee marriage.

By Sara Peters

The number of ransomware samples have grown by 127 percent in the past year, and 58 percent in Q2 2015 alone, according to the latest McAfee Threat Labs Report.

August marks the five-year anniversary of Intel’s announcement that it would buy McAfee, so in addition to presenting some new data, the report includes a retrospective from Intel and McAfee thought leaders about how the current threat landscape matches their expectations from five years ago.

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