Symantec Intelligence Report: August 2011

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

Report highlights:
- Spam – 75.9 percent in August (a decrease of 1.9 percentage points since July 2011)
- Phishing – One in 207.7 emails identified as phishing (an increase of 0.48 percentage points since July 2011)
- Malware – One in 203.3 emails in August contained malware (an increase of 0.14 percentage points since July 2011)
- Malicious Web sites – 3,441 Web sites blocked per day (a decrease of 49.4 percent since July 2011)
- 34.1 percent of all malicious domains blocked were new in August (a decrease of 1.32 percentage points since July 2011)
- 17.3 percent of all Web-based malware blocked was new in August (a decrease of 3.82 percentage points since July 2011)
- Global Debt Crises News Drives Pump-and-Dump Stock Scams
- Are MBR Infections Back in Fashion?
- Phishing Apple’s iDisk
- Phishing Brazilian Brands
- The Truth Behind the Shady RAT
- Spammers take advantage of Unicode normalisation to hide URLs
- Best Practices for Enterprises and Users


The report can be viewed here.