Symantec Intelligence Report: August 2012

Symantec has published their Intelligence report that sums up the latest threat trends for August 2012.

Report highlights:
- Spam – 72.3 percent (an increase of 4.7 percentage points since July)
- Phishing – One in 312.9 emails identified as phishing (an increase of 0.109 percentage points since July)
- Malware – One in 233.1 emails contained malware (a decrease of 0.14 percentage points since July)
- Malicious Web sites – 1,099 websites blocked per day (a decrease of 49.8 percent since July)
- The state of data breaches to date in 2012
- A look at a malicious email scam that pretends to come from Symantec
- A new Java zero-day vulnerability appears in the wild
- An overview of the Elderwood Project



The report can be viewed here.