Sublime September
Last month we had an all time high for phishing - this month phishing has slightly decreased. While spam and viruses levels have increased. The chart below illustrates the percentage for Ham, Spam, Viruses and Phishing.
Below, we have the daily breakdown for ham, spam, viruses and phishing.
World of Spam
The volume per geographical location for spam, viruses and phishing emails for September can be seen below.
No big surprise with the top two spamming countries, US and China have been the top 2 for many months now.
Viruses:
This month is very similiar to last month in terms of the top five, just interchanged in positions.
| Position | Virus | Percentage | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  |
Worm.SomeFool.Gen-2 |
|
59.25% | |
| 2 |  |
Worm.SomeFool.P |
|
12.92% | |
| 3 |  |
Worm.SomeFool.Gen-1 |
|
7.31% | |
| 4 | |
Worm.Mytob.LQ |
|
4.91% | |
| 5 | |
Exploit.HTML.IFrame |
|
4.36% | |
| 6 | |
Worm.Mytob.KF |
|
2.63% | |
| 7 | |
Worm.Bagle.pwd-eml |
|
2.45% | |
| 8 | |
Worm.SomeFool.Z |
|
2.36% | |
| 9 | |
Worm.Mydoom.M |
|
2.32% | |
| 10 | |
Worm.Mytob.KR |
|
1.50% | |
Phishing:
This month, Barclays is the head of the phish pack, with Bank of Scotland and Fifth Third Bank trailing behind.
