Increase in Spam Carrying Malware
There has been a 10x increase in the amount of spam that is carrying a malware payload since the early summer.
According to Symantec's latest State of Spam report (pd):
Since June 2008, there has been an increase in the number of detected email messages carrying malicious payloads. The majority of this malware appeared in zip and RAR file payloads and were detected by antivirus filters. After zip and RAR files, the next most common payload vector for malware was those that were imbedded in the source code of email messages. From June to mid September 2008, the percentage of malware detected in email messages had a dramatic increase from a tenth of a percent (0.1 percent) average in June 2008 to 1.2 percent in the middle of September 2008.
A 1.2% rate may not sound high at first but the given the large volume, even a small percentage is significant.
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