{"id":1953,"date":"2008-10-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/10\/07\/malware-in-e-mail-rose-dramatically-in-september-security-pros-report\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:40:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:40:21","slug":"malware-in-e-mail-rose-dramatically-in-september-security-pros-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/10\/07\/malware-in-e-mail-rose-dramatically-in-september-security-pros-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Malware in E-Mail Rose Dramatically in September, Security Pros Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The amount of e-mail-borne malware attacks jumped dramatically during the month of September, according to security researchers at MX Logic and Symantec.  In its &#8220;October Threat Forecast &#038; Report,&#8221; security vendor MX Logic reported that 5.14 percent of all e-mails in September contained malware, more than twice August&#8217;s percentage and more than five times January&#8217;s rate of 0.95 percent.  Symantec had similar findings in its October &#8220;State of Spam&#8221; report, where the vendor reported the percentage of e-mails with malicious code multiplied about 12 times between June and September.  &#8220;The two largest contributors to this increase in September were e-mails purporting to be an iPhone game and fake FedEx delivery notifications,&#8221; said Sam Masiello, vice president of information security at MX Logic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The malware for the fake iPhone games was named by the major anti-virus vendors as being associated with the Srizbi botnet.<\/p>\n<p>Although Srizbi is still prevalent, it has been overtaken by the Cutwail\/Rustock botnet as it relates to daily mail volumes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/c\/a\/Security\/Malware-in-Email-Rose-Dramatically-in-September-Security-Pros-Report\/?kc=WBGNLSTE10092008STR3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4440,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions\/4440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}