Saturday, July 2, 2011

MessageLabs Intelligence Report: June 2011

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

Report highlights:
- Spam – 72.9% in June (a decrease of 2.9 percentage points since May 2011)
- Phishing – One in 330.6 emails identified as phishing (a decrease of 0.05 percentage points since May 2011)
- Malware – One in 300.7 emails in June contained malware (a decrease of 0.12 percentage points since May 2011)
- Malicious Web sites – 5,415 Web sites blocked per day (an increase of 70.8% since May 2011)
- 35.1% of all malicious domains blocked were new in June (a decrease of 1.7 percentage points since May 2011)
- 20.3% of all Web-based malware blocked was new in June (a decrease of 4.3 percentage points since May 2011)
- Review of Spam-sending botnets in June 2011
- Clicking to Watch Videos Leads to Pharmacy Spam
- Wiki for Everything, Even for Spam
- Phishers Return for Tax Returns
- Fake Donations Continue to Haunt Japan
- Spam Subject Line Analysis
- Best Practices for Enterprises and Users


The report can be viewed here.

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