MessageLabs has released the results of its intelligence report for March. The report details the status of the Storm botnet, spam, and Malware for the end of the third quarter of 2008.
The new report from MessageLabs shows that there is some movement in Malware and Spam online. (IMG: J.Anderson)
Leading off with the botnet traffic, the MessageLabs report says that the Storm botnet was the cause behind almost twenty percent of the spam online in March. Of the Storm related spam, forty-one percent of the messages attempted to sell male enhancement pills. Since January, MessageLabs has intercepted more than four million emails from the Storm botnet, each containing links to Malware or aimed at launching Phishing attacks.
MessageLabs Intelligence also highlights the change in the perception of social networking sites within the business environment with eleven percent of companies now blocking access specifically to Facebook, compared to three percent who have pro-actively set up rules to allow access.
Analysis of Web security activity shows almost ten percent of all web-based Malware intercepted was new in March. MessageLabs also identified an average of six hundred new sites per day harboring Malware and other potentially unwanted programs such as Spyware and Adware. The global ratio of email-borne viruses in email traffic from new and previously unknown bad sources was one in one-hundred sixty-nine emails in March, a decrease of 0.36 percent since the previous month.
March saw a decrease in the proportion of Phishing attacks compared with the previous month. One in two-hundred twenty-eight emails comprised some form of Phishing attack. When judged as a proportion of all email-borne threats, such as viruses and Trojans, the number of Phishing emails had fallen by fourteen percent to seventy-four percent of all email-borne Malware threats intercepted in March.
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