Category Archives: Statistics
Shortcut to Malware and Phishing
URL shorteners are a relatively young category of Internet service. As many social services on the Internet like Twitter & Co. have a character limitation for messages, these URL shorteners became interesting for sharing links. For example, you’d loose 64 … Continue reading
Phishing, Spam and Malware Statistics for June 2010
Our statistics show that some interesting things were happening in June 2010. Most phished brands Paypal got into the focus of the phishers’ attempts to steal account information again – three quarter of all phishing attempts attacked Paypal accounts. Craigslist … Continue reading
Phishing, Spam and Malware Statistics for May 2010
It’s time for the update on last month’s Phishing, Spam and Malware statistics again! Most phished brands In May 2010, phishing for Paypal account data significantly decreased – while Paypal still is the top target of the cyber criminals though. … Continue reading
Phishing, Spam and Malware Statistics for April 2010
With a little delay we present our malware statistics for April 2010. Most Phished Brands Paypal is still by far the most phished brand, though the amount slightly decreased. The phishers seem to broaden their spectrum of attacked banks and … Continue reading
Observations on Spam
Sending out spam emails is still one of the major functions of current malware which infects computers. Bot herders – those people who write the malware to infect your computers – rent their bot networks to other criminals who use … Continue reading
Phishing, Spam and Malware Statistics for March 2010
We’re trying a new format of our statistics. Putting them into one article should enhance the usability. Most phished brands Paypal is still the most phished brand – it is easy to use and just with login credentials it is … Continue reading
Most Phished Brands Statistics for February 2010
In February 2010, Paypal is still on the first place of the most phished brands, even if it lost from its amplitude (about 31%). The big “winner” is, however, Ebay, which started to be used again in phishing attacks. Remember … Continue reading
File/URL Extension statistics for malware URLs in February 2010
An URL can point to a file having an extension or to a complete domain which has some kind of server side code which drops a file on the visitor’s computer. The ‘none’ type in the table means that the … Continue reading
Most abused TLDs in February 2010
The statistic for the top level domains used for hosting Phishing sites and malicious files in February 2010 are available: The most noticeable difference from January is that the usage of .ru domains increased by more than 64% in only … Continue reading
Most used Spam Categories in February 2010
Since January we publish monthly reports about the categories of the spam messages which got sent around the last month. These categories are detected by Avira’s AntiSpam engine as described in the post from January. Between January and February 2010 … Continue reading