Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Message Labs spam traffic analysis

A pretty quick and informative look at what Message Labs is currently seeing on the spam front.
- 90% of all email was spam
- 83.2% was botnet generated
- 45% of botnet generated spam appears to be from Cutwail
- Although one of it's main distribution channels was shut down earlier this month, this botnet showed great resilience by getting right back up. Very little reprieve was seen in traffic
- Virus infected emails 1:269
- Phishing emails 1:280

That's a lot of badness floating around out there. Article Here