MessageLabs Intelligence Report: April 2011

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

Report highlights:
- Spam – 72.9% in April (a decrease of 6.4 percentage points since March 2011)
- Viruses – One in 168.6 emails in April contained malware (an increase of 0.11 percentage points since March 2011)
- Phishing – One in 242.2 emails comprised a phishing attack (an increase of 0.02 percentage points since March 2011)
- Malicious web sites – 2,431 web sites blocked per day (a decrease of 18.2% since March 2011)
- 33.0% of all malicious domains blocked were new in April (a decrease of 4.0 percentage points since March 2011)
- 22.5% of all web-based malware blocked was new in April (a decrease of 1.9 percentage points since March 2011)
- Targeted attacks increase in intensity: What does a recent targeted attack look like?
- Shortened URLs: Do you know what you’re clicking on?


The report can be viewed here.