Trends in Email, Web, and Malware Threats

The June report on Trends in Email, Web, and Malware Threats by Secure Computing® Research is out and here are the key findings;

Spam Volume
Mail volumes remained stable in June with malicious messages making up 85.0% of all email, a 0.57% increase from May. At the end of the month, the Storm Worm gang has released a new variant of the stock spam, unleashing millions of emails with images wrapped up as PDF attachments.

Malware
Trojans continue to dominate the malware category, accounting for almost 96% of all newly discovered malware. Windows Executables remain the most popular vector for distributing these new attacks.

Zombies
An average of 236,540 new zombies were detected daily in June, a 32.3% decrease from May.

Web Threats
An average of 12,436 total new malicious Web sites were detected in June, a 31.28% decrease from the prior month.