New Email and Internet Threat Trends Report from Proofpoint and Commtouch Now Available

The latest email and Internet threat trends report from Proofpoint and our partner Commtouch is now available. As always, this is an interesting read with a lot of great information on the latest attack techniques, social media spoofs, phishing trends, outbound spam and botnet/zombie infections and much more.

You can download a PDF copy by visiting our registration page here:

Proofpoint/Commtouch Q2 Internet Threats Trend Report

Some of the highlights from this quarter's Internet threats trend report include:

Spam levels averaged 82% of all email traffic throughout the quarter—equating to an average of around 179 billion spam messages per day.

Pharmacy spam remained the most common spam theme, accounting for 64% of all spam.

An average of 307,000 zombies (compromised machines that are part of a botnet) were activated daily to inflict malicious activity, representing a slight increase over the prior quarter.

India has surpassed Brazil for the title of the country with the most zombies (13 percent of the world's total).

Virus TDSS.17 was the most widely distributed email-borne virus, but the Mal/Bredo malware had the most variants - over 1800 (more than double the variants of Q1).

Pornography remains the Web site category most infected with malware.

For details and a lot more (including a little bit of humor, like the "Top 10 Most Ridiculous Spam Subjects"), read the full report.