BE CAUTIOUS SOUTH AFRICA HAS THE MAJORITY TARGET FOR - PHISHING ATTACKS

Symantec Corp lately published its March 2011 Message Labs aptitude Report which exposed, between additional things, that South Africa remained mainly under attack region for phishing scams during March 2011.  South Africa has been named by the Message Labs details as the majority targeted region for phishing since September 2010. According to Symantec's investigation, 1 in 44.1 (2.27%) e-mails were recognized as scams attacks during March 2011, downward from the 1 in 32.5 during February 2011. This is considerably advanced than taken as a whole phishing activity, which was 1 in 252.5 e-mails (0.396%) reduce of 0.065 percentage points as on February 2011.

Phishing

Phishing scam attacks are used by scammers attempting to increase the personal details, such as online banking security details. A normal method might be to use representative looking e-mails. Frequently these e-mails play on the fear of users by intimidating delay of services, or by saying that a latent safety breach was identified.Such e-mails may ask you to tell private details or link you to an approved looking website wherever you asked to go through your details.

In South Africa, 1 in 76.9 (1.30%) e-mails controlled malicious contented during March 2011, Symantec's analysts initiated. This is downward commencing the 1 in 81.8 (1.22%) and 81.6% malware and spam levels from previous month.

Luxembourg also took over from South Africa as the province majority is under attack by e-mail malware with 1 in 26.2 (3.82%) the e-mails have been blocked as malicious.

The Message Labs description qualified the reduction in spam to the note of the Rustock botnet which had been transfer as many as 13.82 billion e-mails spam regularly, accounting for an average of 28.5% of global spam sent from all botnets in March 2011.

When the botnet closed spamming this current month, global spam volumes cut down by a third, the report confirmed.

Message Labs intellect establish that global spam volumes fell by 33.6% stuck between March 15 and 17 for the following authorized action against command and manage hosts used by the Rustock botnet. In the days subsequent they note of Rustock, spam accounted for more or less 33 billion e-mails spam per day, compared with a standard of 52 billion per day in the last week. Further botnets have stepped up their actions to take benefit of the gap in the market because Rustock was in use down. Bagle has now taken more than from Rustock as the mainly active spam-sending botnet in 2011.