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Source: http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/enterprise/other_resources/intelligence-report-06-2015.en-us.pdf
The good news... (maybe the CC spam crackdown is working
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There is good news this month on the email-based front of the threat landscape. According
to our metrics, the overall spam rate has dropped to 49.7 percent. This is the first time this
rate has fallen below 50 percent of email for over a decade. The last time Symantec recorded
a similar spam rate was clear back in September of 2003.
Phishing rates and email-based malware were also down this month.
The bad news...
The good news... (maybe the CC spam crackdown is working
)Page 3:
There is good news this month on the email-based front of the threat landscape. According
to our metrics, the overall spam rate has dropped to 49.7 percent. This is the first time this
rate has fallen below 50 percent of email for over a decade. The last time Symantec recorded
a similar spam rate was clear back in September of 2003.
Phishing rates and email-based malware were also down this month.
The bad news...
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However, there were 57.6 million new malware variants created in June, up from 44.5 million pieces of malware
created in May and 29.2 million in April. This increase in activity lends more evidence to the
idea that, with the continued drops in email-based malicious activity, attackers are simply
moving to other areas of the threat landscape
