Symantec Intelligence Report: September 2011

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

Report highlights:
- Spam – 74.8 percent in September (a decrease of 1.1 percentage points since August 2011)
- Phishing – One in 447.9 emails identified as phishing (a decrease of 0.26 percentage points since August 2011)
- Malware – One in 188.7 emails in September contained malware (an increase of 0.04 percentage points since August 2011)
- Malicious Web sites – 3,474 Web sites blocked per day (an increase of 1.0 percent since August 2011)
- 44.6 percent of all malicious domains blocked were new in September (an increase of 10.0 percentage points since August 2011)
- 14.5 percent of all Web-based malware blocked was new in September (a decrease of 2.9 percentage points since August 2011)
- Malicious emails masquerade as office printer messages
- Spammers exploit WordPress vulnerability to promote pharmaceutical spam Web sites
- Fake Offers with Fake Trust Seals
- Spammers and malware authors making increasing use of obfuscated JavaScript
- Best Practices for Enterprises and Users


The report can be viewed here.