Shocking Statistics From The Latest Internet Threat Report

Anti malware company Symantec released its threat report for 2011 on Monday. The statistics are as follows:-

A.      Religious and ideological sites have triple the average number of threats per infected sites that pornographic Web sites contain.

B.      Top 10 categories of most infected Web sites:

1.       Blogs

2.       Web communications

3.       Religious websites

4.       Personally hosted sites

5.       Business sites

6.       Shopping education

7.       Automative themed sites

8.       Health and medicine sites

9.       Porn sites

C.      3/4 spam messages were pharma themed. ¼ spam messages were Sex and dating-themed.

D.      Spam volumes dropped by around 20 billion messages year over year, to an average of 75% of all e-mail last year, compared with 88.5% in 2010.

E.       U.S. was the top source of every category of malicious activity.

F.      India leads in creation of malware and the use of spam zombies. (I am proud of it.) ;-)

G.     Around 13% of bot activity originated in the U.S. and around 34% of Web based attacks. Close to half of all phishing Web sites were based in the U.S.

H.      China saw a steep drop in malicious activity by about 10%. 

I.        Reports of vulnerabilities in industrial control and SCADA systems rose from 15 in 2010 to 129 in 2011.