| Malware Category | modus operandi | Number of Incidents |
| Brute Force | Exhaustive effort of data encryption | 946 |
| Cache Poisoning | Corrupt data is inserted into the cache database e.g., DNS | 894 |
| Cryptanalysis | Exhaustive effort of data encryption | 750 |
| Fuzzing | Injects random bad data into an application to break it | 946 |
| HTTP Request Smuggling | Exhausting a proxy cache by sending HTTP requests | 639 |
| Data stealing malware | Data transmitting across unencrypted network | 840 |