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Malware has been around since the moment computers became connected to networks. This occurred after the (ARPANET) became fully operational in 1971. The first computer virus (Creeper, 1971) was simply a non-malicious experiment. Back then, the threat landscape was practically non-existent.

Today, threat actors have drastically scaled their malicious efforts. They are using the same decades-old tactics, while also leveraging nascent technologies like AI/ML to increase the speed and efficacy of their attacks. Attackers are also using more evasive techniques that go undetected by traditional AV and anti-malware approaches.

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Download the infographic to explore the most common types of malware and discover how BeyondTrust Identity Security and Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions provide a powerful, blended defense against them.

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