Cyber Security Institute
Monday, May 05, 2008
More April malware trends
In April 2008, the global ratio of spam in email traffic from new and previously unknown bad sources, was 73.5 percent (1 in 1.36 emails), a decrease of 0.3 percent on the previous month.The global ratio of email-borne viruses in email traffic from new and previously unknown bad sources, was 1 in 218.9 emails (0.46 percent) in April, a decrease of 0.13 percent since the previous month. April saw an increase of 0.05 percent in the proportion of phishing attacks compared with the previous month.