Symantec Intelligence Report: July 2011

Symantec has published their Intelligence report that sums up the latest threat trends for July 2011.

Report highlights:
- Spam – 77.8 percent in July (an increase of 4.9 percentage points since June 2011)
- Phishing – One in 319.3 emails identified as phishing (an increase of 0.01 percentage points since June 2011)
- Malware – One in 280.9 emails in July contained malware (an increase of 0.02 percentage points since June 2011)
- Malicious Web sites – 6,797 Web sites blocked per day (an increase of 25.5 percent since June 2011)
- 35.9 percent of all malicious domains blocked were new in July (an increase of 0.8 percentage points since June 2011)
- 21.1 percent of all Web-based malware blocked was new in July (an increase of 0.8 percentage points since June 2011)
- Aggressively unstable malware leads to a rise in sophisticated socially engineered attacks
- Phishers’ World in Your Cell Phone
- Large scale malware attack using URL shortening services
- Best Practices for Enterprises and Users


The report can be viewed here.