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One in 10 organizations subject to malware traffic on their networks

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Between 10% and 16% of organizations are had malicious command-and-control (C2) traffic on their networks in any given quarter last year.

The finding comes in a new report from cloud services company Akamai, which analyzed up to seven million Domain Name System (DNS) requests a day on systems administered by the company.

The report concludes that, last year, 10% to 16% of organizations experienced potential malicious command-and-control (C2) traffic on their

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