The state of Spam and Phishing reports for May

spamI thought that you would be interested to learn that in addition to our monthly state of spam report, we have now added a monthly report on Phishing. In May we detected that 42% of phishing URLs were generated using phishing tool-kits. This shows just how prevalent the use of these kits is and how this is helping fuel the automation of these attacks.

Our state of Spam report for May, notes the reemergence of image spam during the month to some 6.5% of all spam (it did climb to 21.9% in one week). One consequence of this is that the average size of spam message has increased. Therefore, we have the annoyance that not only are there more spam emails (nearly 95% in May) and they are larger and take up even more valuable internet bandwidth. This link will take you to both reports.

June 8, 2009 | Filed Under Spam 

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