Top 20 US Cities With the Most Malware Infections

[Batu69]

Major US cities swamped with malware infections

Each year, Enigma Software, the makers of the SpyHunter anti-spyware solution, release a list of the top 20 US cities most infected with malware.

This ranking is based on telemetry data received from the SpyHunter product, and this year 's data included details from four million malware infections across the US. Only 150 of the US' biggest city were taken into account.

In the ranking released last year, with data from 2014, Tampa, Florida was the city with most malware infections in the US. This year, in 2015, Tampa kept its top position, with an infection rate five times bigger than the national average.

Second was last year's third place ranked city, Saint Louis, Missouri, that had an infection rate four times bigger than the national average. Saint Louis switched places with Orlando, Florida, who ranked third in 2015.

The rest of the top ten is occupied by Denver, Atlanta, Newark, Salt Lake City, Madison, Cleveland, and Cincinnati.

The biggest riser in this ranking was Buffalo, who jumped from 47th to 17th.

Enigma Software says that most infections occurred via Web pages. "Because of the growth in online communication - be it Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram or other social networking platforms, there are now more ways for cybercriminals to reach out and trick people into clicking on links," said Patrick Morganelli, Senior Vice President of Technology at Enigma Software.

Top Cities for Malware Infections

2015	2014	City	Infection rate
1	1	Tampa	506% higher than the national average
2	3	Saint Louis	392% higher than the national average
3	2	Orlando	375% higher than the national average
4	6	Denver	333% higher than the national average
5	4	Atlanta	327% higher than the national average
6	7	Newark	241% higher than the national average
7	5	Salt Lake City	223% higher than the national average
8	8	Madison	193% higher than the national average
9	9	Cleveland	184% higher than the national average
10	11	Cincinnati	170% higher than the national average
11	10	Little Rock	164% higher than the national average
12	12	Washington	162% higher than the national average
13	13	Miami	114% higher than the national average
14	17	Raleigh	98% higher than the national average
15	15	Irvine	96% higher than the national average
16	14	Pittsburgh	87% higher than the national average
17	47	Buffalo	87% higher than the national average
18	18	Minneapolis	85% higher than the national average
19	16	Richmond	81% higher than the national average
20	19	Seattle	72% higher than the national average

 

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[Holmes]

My city is in the results I am not going to mention what city it is lawls the results dont surprise me as for how many there are what does is I figured there would be a higher percentage of infections for my city Im not complaining.

[pc71520]

Tampa, FL