Entering the holiday period, Symantec observed an increase of 30 percent in the category of product spam because spammers are trying to offer Christmas gifts and other products.
Although the increase is a behavior that is expected to spammers, who surprisingly is the volume of spam as a whole decreased sharply in November. It is considered very unusual for moments like this.
Based on Symantec's monthly report on Wednesday (29/12/2010), the decline in overall spam volume is also lowered the percentage of spam in its entirety. Spam accounts for 84.31 percent of the total emails in November, compared with 86.61 percent in October. This is the lowest percentage of spam since January 2009, when the level of spam has recovered from disconnection McColo.
Despite the decrease spam, phishing attacks overall increased by 37 percent this month. This change is mainly caused by the increase in both auto-attack toolkits and unique phishing websites. Phishing websites are made by automatic toolkit significantly increased about 90 percent. Increased phishing toolkit is caused by a phishing attack faked a famous bank in America.
In addition, a unique URL to increase by 18 percent, while the phishing Web site with the IP domain (eg, domains such as http://255.255.255.255) increased by approximately 41 percent. Web service providers accounted for 12 percent of the total phishing in November, an increase of 15 percent from the previous month. The number of non-English sites increased 10 percent.
Among non-phishing sites English, French and Portuguese are the highest in the month of November. Compared with previous months, a phishing site in Portuguese language site has surpassed Italy due to increased attacks on the social networking site in Portuguese Brazil.
Although the increase is a behavior that is expected to spammers, who surprisingly is the volume of spam as a whole decreased sharply in November. It is considered very unusual for moments like this.
Based on Symantec's monthly report on Wednesday (29/12/2010), the decline in overall spam volume is also lowered the percentage of spam in its entirety. Spam accounts for 84.31 percent of the total emails in November, compared with 86.61 percent in October. This is the lowest percentage of spam since January 2009, when the level of spam has recovered from disconnection McColo.
Despite the decrease spam, phishing attacks overall increased by 37 percent this month. This change is mainly caused by the increase in both auto-attack toolkits and unique phishing websites. Phishing websites are made by automatic toolkit significantly increased about 90 percent. Increased phishing toolkit is caused by a phishing attack faked a famous bank in America.
In addition, a unique URL to increase by 18 percent, while the phishing Web site with the IP domain (eg, domains such as http://255.255.255.255) increased by approximately 41 percent. Web service providers accounted for 12 percent of the total phishing in November, an increase of 15 percent from the previous month. The number of non-English sites increased 10 percent.
Among non-phishing sites English, French and Portuguese are the highest in the month of November. Compared with previous months, a phishing site in Portuguese language site has surpassed Italy due to increased attacks on the social networking site in Portuguese Brazil.