Thanks Naik for the information. The way research was carried out and presentation of report is really amazing. Let me share below the highlights of this report for everyones' reference.
*REPORT HIGHLIGHTS* • Spam – 90.2% in May (an increase of 0.3 percentage points since April) • Viruses – One in 211.6 emails in May contained malware (an increase of 0.18 percentage points since April) • Phishing – One in 237.1 emails comprised a phishing attack (an increase of 0.2 percentage points since April) • Malicious websites – 1,770 websites blocked per day (an increase of 5.6% since April) • 32.1% of all malicious domains blocked were new in May (a decrease of 1.5 percentage points since April) • 12.4% of all web-based malware blocked was new in May (an increase of 1.5 percentage points since April) • ‘Behind the Scenes’ of Spam URLs • As Africa Welcomes Faster Internet Access, Botnets Move in to Capitalize • Soccer World Cup Themed Malware • Moving Endpoint Protection into the Cloud Its is to be noted that further analysis of the domains used in the spam URL links enabled to identify the IP address hosting the web content to which the URL pointed. Deeper analysis of these IP addresses revealed certain patterns within the Autonomous System Numbers (ASN), which uniquely identify each network on the internet. ASNs are globally unique and identify the routing policies for blocks of IP addresses and the ISPs to which they are allocated. Where an AS number could be determined for a particular IP address, MessageLabs Intelligence identified that as few as five ASNs were responsible for hosting content for 42% of the disposable spam domains scrutinized during May. These were located in the following countries: United States (17% of all domains), China (13%), Ukraine (8%) and France (4%). In May, 5% of all domains found in spam URLs belonged to genuine, or legitimate, web sites, whilst 95% were disposable. The legitimate domains tend to be recycled and used again and again, compared with the disposable domains that tend to be used for a very short period of time and then are never seen again. For all disposable domains analyzed in May, the IP addresses were located in the following countries: United States (27% of disposable domains), Vietnam (16%), China (12%), Rep of Korea (5%) and Ukraine (5%). This means that 56% of disposable spam domains are mapped to an IP address in one of the top three countries listed. Regards Sandeep Thakur On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Srinivas Naik <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Hope this report from Message Labs will be of some help. > > Regards, > 0xN41K > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nforceit" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<nforceit%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nforceit?hl=en-GB. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nforceit" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nforceit?hl=en-GB.
