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Symantec Intelligence Report: February 2013
Symantec Analyst Relations | 18 Mar 2013 | 0 comments

The February edition of the Symantec Intelligence report provides the latest analysis of cyber security threats, trends, and insights from the Symantec Intelligence team concerning malware, spam, and other potentially harmful business risks. The data used to compile the analysis for this report includes data from January through February 2013.

Report highlights

  • Spam – 65.9 percent (an increase of 1.8 percentage points since January)
  • Phishing – One in 466.3 emails identified as phishing (an increase of 0.018 percentage points since January)
  • Malware – One in 408.2 emails contained malware (a decrease of 0.11 percentage points since January)
  • Malicious websites – 1,530 websites blocked per day (a decrease of 32.2 percent since January)

Introduction

In the past month we‘ve discovered of the earliest known variant of the...

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Symantec Intelligence Report: August 2012
Symantec Analyst Relations | 10 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

The August edition of the Symantec Intelligence report provides the latest analysis of cyber security threats, trends, and insights from the Symantec Intelligence team concerning malware, spam, and other potentially harmful business risks. The data used to compile the analysis for this report includes data from May 2011 through August 2012.

Report highlights

  • Spam – 72.3 percent (an increase of 4.7 percentage points since July)
  • Phishing – One in 312.9 emails identified as phishing (an increase of 0.109 percentage points since July)
  • Malware – One in 233.1 emails contained malware (a decrease of 0.14 percentage points since July)
  • Malicious Web sites – 1 website blocked per day (a decrease of 49.8 percent since July)
  • The state of data breaches to date in 2012
  • A look at a malicious email scam that pretends to come from Symantec
  • A new Java zero-day vulnerability appears in...
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Symantec Intelligence Report: February 2012
Symantec Analyst Relations | 10 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

Socially engineered polymorphic malware spoofing a well-known North American business mediation and arbitration service

The February edition of the Symantec Intelligence report provides the latest analysis of cyber security threats, trends and insights from the Symantec Intelligence team concerning malware, spam, and other potentially harmful business risks. The data used to compile the analysis for this report includes data from January 2011 and February 2012.

Report highlights

  • Spam – 68.0 percent (a decrease of 1.0 percentage points since January 2011): page 7
  • Phishing – One in 358.1 emails identified as phishing (an increase of 0.01 percentage points since January 2011): page 10
  • Malware – One in 274.0 emails contained malware (an increase of 0.03 percentage points since January 2011): page 12
  • Malicious Web sites – 2,305 Web sites blocked per day (an increase of 9.7 percent since...
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