A Survey of Financial Losses Due to Malware
Maitri Amin · 2016
General survey stat that the main damage malware can cause is to slow down their PCs and perhaps crash some websites which is quite wrong, The Russian antivirus software developer teamed up with B2B International for a study worldwide recently, shown 36% of users lose money online as a result of a malware attack. Currently malware can't be detected by traditional way based anti-malware tools due to their polymorphic and/or metamorphic nature. Here we have improvised a current detection technique of malware based on mining Application Programming Interface (API) calls and developed the first public dataset to promote malware research.