Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Symantec Intelligence Report: October 2012

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

Report highlights:
- Spam – 64.8 percent (a decrease of 10.2 percentage points since September)
- Phishing – One in 286.9 emails identified as phishing (a decrease of 0.059 percentage points since September)
- Malware – One in 229.4 emails contained malware (a decrease of 0.04 percentage points since September)
- Malicious websites – 933 websites blocked per day (an increase of 19.7 percent since September)
- Scammers attempt to leverage Instagram
- Why global spam rates are down this month
- The evolution of Ransomware
- Other stories in the threat landscape this month



The report can be viewed here.

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