MessageLabs has published their Intelligence report that sums up the latest threat trends for October 2010.
Report highlights:
• Spam – 87.5% in October (a decrease of 4.2
percentage points since September)
• Viruses – One in 221.9 emails in October contained
malware (a decrease of 0.01 percentage points
since September)
• Phishing – One in 488.0 emails comprised a
phishing attack (a decrease of 0.06 percentage
points since September)
• Malicious websites – 2,280 websites blocked per day
(a decrease of 23.9% since September)
• 51.3% of all malicious domains blocked were new in
October (an increase of 17.7 percentage points
since September)
• 24.7% of all web-based malware blocked was new in
October (an increase of 2.9 percentage points since
September)
• A review of targeted attacks, what they are, how they
work and how MessageLabs Intelligence measures
them
• In October the Retail sector becomes the most
targeted industry; a closer look at one retailer that
may have fallen victim to a targeted attack without
Skeptic™
• Defending against targeted attacks
The report can be viewed here.
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