MessageLabs Intelligence Report: January 2011

MessageLabs has published their Intelligence report that sums up the latest threat trends for January 2011.

Report highlights:
- Spam – 78.6% in January (a decrease of 3.1 percentage points since December 2010)

- Viruses – One in 364.8 emails in January contained malware (a decrease of 0.03 percentage points since December 2010)

- Phishing – One in 409.7 emails comprised a phishing attack (an increase of 0.004 percentage points since December 2010)

- Malicious websites – 2,751 websites blocked per day (a decrease of 21.5% since December 2010)

- 41.1% of all malicious domains blocked were new in January (an increase of 7.9 percentage points since December 2010). An increase in malicious domains may be related to the high proportion of email malware that also contained malicious hyperlinks; 65.1% of email malware in January contained malicious links.

- 21.8% of all web-based malware blocked was new in January (a decrease of 3.1 percentage points since December 2010)

- Spam volumes fall to lowest level in two years

- Why did global spam volumes decline in December 2010?

- The balance of power shifts between pharmaceutical spam gangs

- Blog: Targeted attack reveals new social engineering twist


The report can be viewed here.