DDoS-sourced malware is on the rise, according to AppRiver's Q3 Global Security Report, which analysed malware and spam trends in Q3 2016 (between July and September 2016).
For the first time, the web saw disruptions caused by DDoS attacks leveraged by botnets comprised primarily of IoT devices during Q3 of this year.
The company's security analyst team quarantined 5.7 billion emails containing malware in Q3, a 35 percent increase over the total they recorded in Q2 2016. This quarterly total is more than triple 1.7 billion emails containing malware that analysts observed during the entirety of 2015. Over two billion spam messages were quarantined as well.
