We’ve just released our January threat stats, and they make sobering reading. This month, more than half of all malware sent via email was an attempted phishing attack. At Network Box, we’re used to seeing threat stats leap before Christmas, and they did again last year, but they have stayed consistently high throughout January, which is not something that we see that often.
The threat stats also reveal that the number of viruses originating from the UK has increased slightly from December 2009. With that, and Germany’s first appearance in the top ten spam and virus sources list, perhaps we are seeing the start of a new trend of European produced malware?
It could be that the difficult economic climate and the popularity of online shopping have combined to create the perfect environment for hackers, phishes and fraudsters to ply their illegal trade. Clearly, we all need to remember to keep our systems updated with the latest patches and security updates. Yes, this is common sense, but cyber-crime would not exist if people were not profiting from vulnerabilities in our computer security and our networks.
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