Over the past decade, businesses and corporations have shifted more to using automated services as their data collection of storing sensitive information for their clients has expanded. The most popular way to access these applications that hold and maintain this information is through the internet. The internet has become vital in our society that includes our federal and state governments, bank institutions, and numerous corporations throughout the world. Utilizing the internet has transitioned into the category that holds major security issues that could cause national degradation within our economy. The internet has become the number one platform for cyber criminals to conduct their attacks for profit or exercise their newly designed tools on targeted organizations to track the effectiveness of their tools to better improve their tactics. This paper explores types of malwares throughout the past years that have evolved with technology, the techniques that were, or are currently being used with the malware, vulnerabilities within the hardware, software used by organizations, and mitigations on devices that can better protect end user devices.