1. It emerged in September, but similar malware families date back as far as 2005.

2. McAfee Labs saw nearly 45,000 new macro malware samples in the third quarter of 2015.

3. They are no longer paying for hosting malware and are less likely to get blacklisted.

4. That type of malware collects the card details after a card has been swiped.

5. Thursday The malware had not been seen previously in other attacks.

6. So what if the President gets some malware on his phone?

7. The use of malware to compromise payment information storage systems is not new.

8. This is not the first time a malware program patched the flaws it used to get in.

9. One of the companies ended up with malware on their network after an attack, the report said.

10. Security firms find mobile malware does not currently pose a significant threat.

11. The type of malware it used is known as a RAM scraper.

12. Since then other hackers have been using the malware to carry out their own attacks.

13. That means you can trust a used Chromebook to not have malware hiding on it.

14. One of the most common sources of malware is through email links and attachments.

15. Other malware programs have been known to update themselves once a computer is infected.