The state of Spam and Phishing for July 2009

spamWe have just released our latest State of Spam report and it shows that volumes averaged 89% of messages for July 2009. During the month, image spam continues to show a resurgence and to have an impact, reaching 17% of all spam during one point in July. Click here to download the report.

In addition we have also released our State of Phishing report. We saw a 52% increase in phishing attacks from the previous month. We continue to observe that the majority of the attacking URLs were generated using phishing toolkits, with a 150% increase from the previous month. Click here to download the report.

August 6, 2009 | Filed Under Security, Spam 

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