In September, the trend is denoted in August: the continuing decline in the share category

The amount of spam in mail traffic in September 2009 to an average of 86.3%. A low of was recorded September 18 - 83.3%. The amount of spam in mail traffic does not fall below 83% during the month, which is observed for the first time.
In the ranking of countries - sources of spam in September again in the lead the U.S., which provided almost a third of spam traffic (32.5%). Brazil second place (about 6% of spam). In the first ten Asian countries are well represented: Vietnam, Korea, China, India. Russia on the 6th place (3.86% of all spam).
In September, the trend is denoted in August: the continuing decline in the share category "advertising services" consistently high proportion of the letters "Other goods and services", markedly increased the proportion of category "Education" - all this confirms our August forecast: more and more customers from the real sectors of the economy are turning to spammers.
Experts also emphasize the sharp increase in the number of infected emails in spam. Malicious files were found in 1.22% of all emails. This is significantly cat c car higher than the previous month (1.17% compared to August). Almost half of the infected messages contained Trojan family FraudLoad. The Trojan installs on the victim's computer fake antivirus used by fraudsters to extort money.
First place in the Top 10 malicious programs cat c car distributed in spam emails, suddenly took Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Murlo.cba. This is quite an ancient specimen was discovered in 28.5% of spam emails containing malicious attachments. Contrary to expectations, rather poorly represented in September ten Trojans family Zbot. In ninth place is Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.gen - This Trojan is designed to steal confidential cat c car information.
Pay special attention to the experts on social engineering tricks that spammers use to spread emails with malicious attachments. Attackers forged letters like notifications from reputable postal and financial companies cat c car such as DHL, UPS and Western Union. This, of course, not new, but very effective method.
Links to phishing sites were found in 0.84% of all emails, which is 0.25% less than in August. In September, the first in the ranking of organizations cat c car attacked returned PayPal, the proportion of attacks that increased compared to August doubled (18.68%). On the second line of the rating is IRS - American organization dedicated to the tax levy. It had 11.08% of all phishing attacks in September. With the help of forged letters from the IRS attackers attempted to expand Zbot (Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot). Internet auction site eBay took third place ranking.
In September, spammers cat c car used a trick that can be called effective to bypass filters, but ineffective for the distribution of goods and services. The user had to manually copy not only proposed in the address line of the browser, but also manually remove it from the extra digits.
Overall spam upped, the number of orders cat c car that receive cat c car junk mail senders increases. It should be noted as a sharp increase in the number of infected messages in the spam and to remind users that they should not open attachments and clicking on links in emails from unknown sources.
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