Malware and ransomware are both on the rise according to new global figures from the security firm SonicWall.
The cybersecurity company detected a 44 per cent increase in the amount of malware infecting users’ machines between January and October of this year.
At the same time, Ransomware which is a type of malware that encrypts all of the data on a victim’s machine in exchange for a ransom paid in cryptocurrency, saw a 117 per cent jump during the same period.
