June Phishing Attempts Reach Second Highest Level Ever (News Release)   - 1,490 Views, 1 Comment

Postini protected its customers from 16,667,444 phishing attempts, a 71 percent average per day increase compared to May.

“Phishing attempts will continue to plague enterprise users for the foreseeable future,” said Andrew Lochart, senior director of marketing at Postini. “As long as phishing remains a threat to businesses and their
employees, it is imperative that businesses implement strong spam and phishing defenses.”

While phishing scams were on the rise in June, there was a decrease in the number of virus infected email messages this month. The number of directory harvest attacks (DHAs) against corporate networks also decreased in June compared with last month. Postini saw a 23 percent drop in the average number of DHA attacks per day against enterprise networks.

The top ten viruses for June were:

Virus Name Quantity Detected

mytob 42,564,787

netsky 9,678,418

mime 5,204,341

bankfraud 4,166,861

bagle 2,984,403

zafi 1,397,793

downloader-abl 1,311,393

mydoom 1,049,130

lovgate 1,025,157

klez 218,789

Postini’s Email StatTrak is available to users at http://www.postini.com/stats
and provides the most up-to-date statistics on the latest viruses, spam and
DHA attacks.