Lists & Rankings: The month of malicious spam: Fraudsters step up their attempts to infect PC users
Includes Charts:

+ Top ten web threats
+ Top malware-hosting countries
+ Top ten email threats
+ The top ten list of email hoaxes and scams in August 2007

The figures, compiled by Sophos’s global network of monitoring stations, show a dramatic drop in malware spreading in the form of email attachments, with just one infected message in every 1,000 emails in August, compared to one in 322 during the first six months of 2007.

Spam, however, has continued to be a problem – much of it linking to malicious websites designed to infect users. A series of large-scale attacks have been made via spam email, directing users to infected webpages with the promise of ecards, pictures of nude celebrities, YouTube movies, and pop music videos. People visiting the sites are running the risk of having their PCs infected by malicious code which can then steal personal information, spam out more malware and junk email, or launch distributed denial of service attacks against innocent parties.

Source: Sophos

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