Doctor Web’s January 2024 virus activity review

**Doctor Web — January 2024 security overview:** Detection volumes rose sharply (95.66% month‑over‑month) with a 22.84% increase in user requests to decrypt files affected by encoder (ransomware) trojans; adware and adware trojans were most frequently detected, new Android adware (Adware.StrawAd) and Android.FakeApp families were found on Google Play, email-borne threats (including JS.Inject and an Office exploit tied to CVE-2018-0798) were common, and fraud-focused finance websites targeting personal data proliferated.