Symantec Intelligence Report: May 2015

Symantec have published their Intelligence report that sums up the latest threat trends for May 2015.

Report highlights:
- Almost 43 percent of spear-phishing attacks were directed at organizations with less than 250 employees during May, up from 31 percent in April.
- Small organizations were most likely to be targeted by malicious email in the month of May as well, where one in 141 emails contained a threat.
- There were more than 44.5 million new pieces of malware created in May, up from 29.2 million created in April.
- The overall email spam rate further declined in May, dropping 0.6 percentage points to 51.5 percent.


The report (in PDF format) can be viewed here.