Symantec Intelligence Report: October 2011

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

Report highlights:
- Spam – 74.2 percent in October (a decrease of 0.6 percentage points since September 2011)
- Phishing – One in 343.1 emails identified as phishing (an increase of 0.07 percentage points since September 2011)
- Malware – One in 235.8 emails in October contained malware (a decrease of 0.11 percentage points since September 2011)
- Malicious Web sites – 3,325 Web sites blocked per day (a decrease of 4.3 percent since September 2011)
- 43.9 percent of all malicious domains blocked were new in October (a decrease of 0.7 percentage points since September 2011)
- 15.2 percent of all Web-based malware blocked was new in October (an increase of 0.7 percentage points since September 2011)
- Spammers setting up more URL shortening services
- Social engineering example from the East
- New Symantec Research: W32.Duqu - Precursor to the Next Stuxnet
- New Symantec Research: The Motivations of Recent Android Malware
- Best Practices for Enterprises and Users


The report can be viewed here.