From helpnetsecurity.com
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“Swiss Army knife” malware – multi-purpose malware that can perform malicious actions across the cyber-kill chain and evade detection by security controls – is on the rise, according to the results of Picus Security’s analysis of over 550,000 real-world malware samples gathered from commercial and open-source threat intelligence services, security vendors and researchers, and malware sandboxes and databases.