Contents tagged with Threat landscape in LATAM
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The Threat Landscape in South America: Chile and Colombia
In this fourth and final part of our series on the threat landscape in South America, we examine threats in Chile and then Colombia. As illustrated in Figure 1, both of these regions have had periods where their malware infection rates were above the worldwide average, and have more recently trended down. Read more
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The Threat Landscape in South America: Argentina and Uruguay
In this third part of our series on the threat landscape in South America, we examine threats in Argentina and Uruguay. Of the locations represented in Figure 1, Argentina and Uruguay are among the locations with the lowest malware infection rates in South America. Read more
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The Threat Landscape in South America: Examining Brazil’s Dramatic Improvement
This article, part 2 of a series on the threat landscape in South America, focuses on Brazil. Brazil has had one of the most active threat landscapes in the world for many years. As seen in Figure 1, in the first quarter of 2011 (1Q11), Brazil’s infection rate (19.18) was over double that of the worldwide average (8.65). But Brazil’s infection rate dramatically improved over the following nine quarters, ending the second quarter of 2013 (2Q13) at 6.7 compared to the worldwide average of 5.8. Read more