MessageLabs Intelligence Report: August 2009

MessageLabs has published their Intelligence report that sums up the latest threat trends for August 2009.

Report highlights:
• Spam – 88.5% in August (0.9% decrease since July)
• Viruses – one in 296.6 emails in August contained malware (almost unchanged since July)
• Phishing – one in 341.2 emails comprised a phishing attack (0.01% decrease since July)
• Malicious websites – 3,510 websites blocked per day (2.9% decrease since July)
• Latvian ISP closure dents Cutwail botnet
• Shortened-URL spam runs continue
• Social networking websites get hit by DDoS attacks

The report can be found here.