The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of Defense (DoD) identified Trojan malware variants used by the North Korean government. 

The rise in popularity of the Remote Access Trojan, or RAT, among other financially motivated threat actors, was a major threat in 2019.

It is estimated that 27 million new strains of malware were created in 2012 alone.