Cybercriminals are increasingly infecting regular people with spyware

The company found a rate of 1.07 spyware infections per 1,000 consumer scans of the startup’s free online checks. The security firm reported a lower rate of infections for enterprises, detecting .7 infections per 1,000 scans, a disparity iVerify attributed to enterprises’ enforced patching, on-device detection and network security controls.

Company co-founder Rocky Cole declined to say exactly how many consumer devices the firm tested, but said hundreds of thousands were scanned. An average Fortune 500 company experiences about 65 infections per year on its devices, he said. Notably, a large number of enterprise employees found with infected devices were rank and file workers as opposed to top executives.

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