October 2011 - Internet Threats Trend Report

Commtouch’s quarterly Internet Threats Trend Report covers Web threats, phishing, malware, and spam. The October trend report describes the explosion of email-borne malware in the third quarter of 2011 to the highest levels observed in over two years.  The ultimate purpose of the huge volumes of malware has remained unclear as spam levels continued to decrease. 

Additional October 2011 trends include:

• Over 230 billion emails with attached malware were sent in the outbreaks of August and September.The malware included variants of Sasfis, SpyEye, Zeus, fake antivirus, and others. 
• Phony Facebook notifications lured users to malware, while large scale  scams accumulated hundreds of thousands of Facebook Likes
• Spam levels dropped to an average of 93 billion spam/phishing messages per day during Q3.
• The most popular spam topic in Q3 was pharmacy ads, increasing to 29% of all spam from 24% in Q2.
• India keeps its title as the country with the most zombies – 18% of all zombies worldwide.

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