MessageLabs Intelligence Report: February 2011

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

Report highlights:
- Spam – 81.3% in February (an increase of 2.7 percentage points since January 2011)
- Viruses – One in 290.1 emails in February contained malware (an increase of 0.07 percentage points since January 2010)
- Phishing – One in 216.7 emails comprised a phishing attack (an increase of 0.22 percentage points since January 2010)
- Malicious websites – 4,098 web sites blocked per day (a decrease of 13.7% since January 2011)
- 38.9% of all malicious domains blocked were new in February (a decrease of 2.2 percentage points since January 2010)
- 20.3% of all web-based malware blocked was new in February (a decrease of 1.5 percentage points since January 2010)
- Synchronized, Integrated Attacks in February: Bredolab, Zeus and SpyEye
- Diversification in Targeted Malware: PDF files become attack vector of choice
- Blog: New pharmacy spam campaign uses Google brand-hijacking
- Blog: Tenth Anniversary of the Anna Kournikova virus
- Blog: 419 Scammers Plan Ahead with 2022 World Cup Scams


The report can be viewed here.