. The last quarter of 2010 reported an average of 60,000 new malware threats detected per day, an increase of four times more than reported daily in 2007, according to the security company McAfee.In total, 14 million viruses of this class were registered in 2010, one million more than in 2009, led by the Stuxnet worm, considered the most sophisticated currently ever created, although there is another virus called Zeus, a Trojan that has penetrated both PCs and mobile devices.
McAfee also indicates in the report that cybercriminals are taking advantage of search engines to commit their crimes, as 60% of Google's search terms returned malicious pages in the first 100 results.
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