Symantec has published the monthly report of the Intelligence Report with the results of the analysis of activity of spammers and phishers in the global network.

According to the experts of the company data, the volume of junk e-mail correspondence on the results of the October amounted to 74.2 per cent of e-mail traffic, showing a reduction of 0.6 percentage points compared with September 2011. The volume of produced in Russia spam for the last month decreased by 0.5 percentage points to 81.7%. By this indicator Russia is still behind only Saudi Arabia with 80,5% and occupies the second place in the world. The greatest popularity in October reached spam associated with pharmaceutical products, on the second place - spam, leading to the resources for adult and dating sites.

Special attention of specialists Symantec pay increase in the number of phishing sites, the number of which October increased by 17.1%, and use by criminals of loud information occasions to increase the effectiveness of the dissemination of malicious programs. In particular, in the last month, cybercriminals are actively practiced in their own selfish purposes boom in the Network around the former libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, sending malicious messages with a trojan Backdoor.Misdat.

The full version of the kastrychnitski analytical report Symantec can be found on the site symanteccloud.com.

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