No let-up in email threat landscape
Friday, 30 April, 2010
Email Security Threat Brief for the month of March 2010 highlights the monthly email trends from Websense Security Labs.
Key stats:
Threats 'in the mail' this month:
- 3.5 billion messages processed by the Hosted Infrastructure (over 112 million per day)
- 83.4% of all email was spam
- 93.7% of spam included an embedded URL
- 1.1 million instances of 85 unique zero-day threats stopped by ThreatSeeker before AV (antivirus)
- 0.4% of spam emails were phishing attacks
How Websense is addressing these threats:
- 99.5% spam detection rate. Websense Hosted Email Security provides 99% spam detection Service Level Agreement.
- Average false positive rate of 1 in 327,083
- 26% average daily threats protected using ThreatSeeker intelligence before AV signatures were available
What this means:
- Not surprisingly, the threat landscape is dangerous and growing more sophisticated.
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