MessageLabs has published their Intelligence report that sums up the latest threat trends for May 2011.
Report highlights:
- Spam – 75.8% in May (an increase of 2.9 percentage points since April 2011)
- Viruses – One in 222.3 emails in May contained malware (a decrease of 0.14 percentage points since April 2011)
- Phishing – One in 286.7 emails comprised a phishing attack (a decrease of 0.06 percentage points since April 2011)
- Malicious web sites – 3,170 web sites blocked per day (an increase of 30.4% since April 2011)
- 36.8% of all malicious domains blocked were new in May (an increase of 3.8 percentage points since April 2011)
- 24.6% of all web-based malware blocked was new in May (an increase of 2.1 percentage points since April 2011)
- For the First Time, Spammers establish their own fake URL-shortening services
The report can be viewed here.
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