{"id":24673,"date":"2011-05-27T14:37:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T12:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/newsnew\/?p=24673"},"modified":"2011-05-27T18:39:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T18:39:00","slug":"messagelabs-intelligence-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/24673-messagelabs-intelligence-report.html","title":{"rendered":"MessageLabs Intelligence Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MessageLabs Intelligence provides a range of information on  global security threats based on live data feeds from our control towers around  the world scanning billions of messages each week.<\/p>\n<p>The May 2011 MessageLabs Intelligence Report reveals that,  for the first time ever, spammers are establishing their own their own fake  URL-shortening services to perform URL redirection.<\/p>\n<p>This new spamming activity has contributed to this month\u2019s  increase in spam by 2.9 percentage points, a rise that was also expected  following the Rustock botnet takedown in March.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Report highlights<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The following list provides some of the highlights of the May  2011 MessageLabs Intelligence Report.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spam:<\/strong> In May 2011, the global ratio of spam in email traffic  from new and previously unknown bad sources increased by 2.9 percentage points  since April 2011 to 75.8% (1 in 1.32 emails).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Viruses:<\/strong> The global ratio of email-borne viruses in email  traffic from new and previously unknown bad sources was one in 222.3 emails  (0.450 percent) in May, a decrease of 0.143 percentage points since April.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Endpoint Threats:<\/strong> The most frequently blocked malware  targeting endpoint devices for the last month was the W32.Ramnit!html, a worm  that spreads through removable drives and by infecting executable files.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Phishing:<\/strong> In May, phishing activity was 1 in 286.7 emails  (0.349 percent), a decrease of 0.06 percentage points since April.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Web security:<\/strong> Analysis of Web security activity shows that  approximately 3,142 Web sites each day were harboring malware and other potentially  unwanted programs including spyware and adware, an increase of 30.4 percent  since April 2011. 36.8 percent of malicious domains blocked were new in May, an  increase of 3.8 percentage points since April. Additionally, 24.6 percent of  all web-based malware blocked was new in May, an increase of 2.1 percentage  points since last month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Geographical Trends<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Russia became the most spammed in May with a spam rate of  82.2 percent.<\/li>\n<li>In the US 76.4 percent of email was spam and 75.3 percent in  Canada and 75.4 percent in the UK.<\/li>\n<li>In The Netherlands, spam accounted for 77.5 percent of email  traffic, in Germany 75.5 percent, 75.1 percent in Denmark and 73.9 percent in  Australia.<\/li>\n<li>Spam levels in Hong Kong reached 75.2 percent and 74.0  percent in Singapore. Spam levels in Japan were 72.3 percent.<\/li>\n<li>In South Africa, spam accounted for 75.9 percent of email  traffic and 74.8% in Brazil.<\/li>\n<li>The UK had the highest ratio of malicious emails in May, as  one in 91.7 emails was blocked as malicious in May.<\/li>\n<li>In the US virus levels were 1 in 540.3 and 1 in 334.5 for  Canada. In Germany, virus levels reached 1 in 435.9, 1 in 1,197 in Denmark and  1 in 330.1 for The Netherlands.<\/li>\n<li>In Australia, 1 in 513.5 emails were malicious and, 1 in  377.2 for Hong Kong, for Japan it was 1 in 1,164 compared with 1 in 706.7 for  Singapore.<\/li>\n<li>In South Africa 1 in 178.7 emails contained malicious  content and in Brazil it was 1 in 378.3.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Symantec recently announced the publication of its May 2011 MessageLabs Intelligence Report, revealing trends regarding the fight against viruses, spam and spyware<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":24675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24677,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24673\/revisions\/24677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}