It turns out that since the beginning of 2022, they are 646% more than before. So, if in the first half of 2021 their number reached only 226.3 thousand pieces, now we are talking about 1.69 million. At the same time, in the last 6 months, the number of malware has increased more than in the whole last year. .
Experts believe this is due to the fact that Linux underlies many cloud services and IoT devices. Thus, by hacking the system, attackers can “zombify” these devices and connect them to botnet networks.
Source: Ferra
