MessageLabs has published their Intelligence report that sums up the latest threat trends for August 2010.
Report highlights:
• Spam – 92.2% in August (an increase of 3.3 percentage points since July)
• Viruses – One in 327.6 emails in August contained malware (a decrease of 0.02 percentage points since July)
• Phishing – One in 363.1 emails comprised a phishing attack (an increase of 0.10 percentage points since July)
• Malicious websites – 3,360 websites blocked per day (a decrease of 24.1% since July)
• 34.3% of all malicious domains blocked were new in August (an increase of 3.8 percentage points since July)
• 12.9% of all web-based malware blocked was new in August (a decrease of 0.2 percentage points since July)
• Battle of the botnets - Rustock remains dominant
• US hosts the greatest number of bots, but Europe becomes home to new botnet hotspots
• Less is more: Rustock moves away from TLS encrypted spam
The report can be found here.
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