India Highest Originator of Spam: Symantec Report

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  style="font-size: 9pt;" size="2"> style="font-weight: normal;">India

was the highest originator of spam in August, accounting for 16.6 per

cent of total global spam volume, states the Symantec Intelligence

Report: August 2011. According to the

report, phishing with Indian geo-location saw an increase of 148.38

per cent from the previous month and Hyderabad topped the list of

Indian cities hosting phishing attacks on non-Indian brands.

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Symantec report also states that 100 per cent of Indian brands

targeted for phishing attacks were in the banking sector and spam in

India constituted 74 per cent of all email in August 2011.

Globally, during

August 2011, one in 203.3 emails contained malware which is an

increase of 0.14 per centage points since July 2011

Global trends

The threat report

finds that one in 207.7 emails are phishing mails and one in 203.3

emails contained malware besides per centage of spam stood at 75.9 in

the month of August, 2011.






As per the new findings spam stood
at 75.9 percent in August (a decrease of 1.9 percentage points since

July 2011).However, Phishing and malware attacks increased during the

same period. While one in 207.7 emails identified as phishing which

is an increase of 0.48 percentage points since July 2011.

Globally, about 3,441

malicious web sites are blocked per day  which is a decrease of

49.4 percent since July 2011 and 34.1 percent of all malicious

domains blocked were new in August (a decrease of 1.32 percentage

points since July 2011). 17.3 percent of all Web-based malware

blocked was new in August (a decrease of 3.82 percentage points since

July 2011