1,188,728,338.
That's the total number of attacks Kaspersky Lab says its antivurus repelled around the world in 2017.
If you're keeping score at home, that is about 360,000 infected files per day.
The company also says it is an 11.7% increase over the last year. Here are the highlights from the 2017 Security Bulletin:
- 4% of user computers were subjected to at least one malware-class web attack over the year.
- Kaspersky Lab solutions repelled 1,188,728,338 attacks launched from online resources located all over the world.
- 199,455,606 unique URLs were recognized as malicious by web antivirus components.
- Kaspersky Lab’s web antivirus detected 15,714,700 unique malicious objects.
- 939,722 computers of unique users were targeted by encryptors.
- Kaspersky Lab solutions blocked attempts to launch malware capable of stealing money via online banking on 1,126,701 devices