MX Logic August Threat Forecast
We released the MX Logic August Threat Forecast today and wanted to share a few notable pieces of information.
In July we saw spam as a percentage of overall mail reach its highest point ever currently accounting for 94.6 percent of all email. However, malicious threats being sent via email has been on the decline. We’ve seen this shift taking place over the last several months and in July web-borne threats finally crossed the threshold into the predominant method cybercriminals are using. This is note worthy considering the large volume of spam that was recorded; this is not to say that the usual suspects were not developing new malware. It just appears as email has, once again, fallen out of favor as a delivery method for some of the major groups although it is being used as a primary vehicle to deliver messages that contain links to web sites that deliver malware. A few additional highlights include:
- Spam volumes increased by another 27 percent month-over-month as compared to June and have increased 400 percent since February 2009.
- There was an increased prevalence of spammers utilizing Google’s trending topic information (see previous post for details)
- Biggest threats were spam related to Michael Jackson’s death and Waledac’s July 4th Fireworks
- Health related spam continues to be far and away the most prevalent type of spam
- Top Spam Countries: Brazil is about to take the number one position -United States (12.86%); Brazil (12.43%)
See the full report: http://www.mxlogic.com/threatforecast/
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