Q1 2009 Email Threats Trend Report

Conficker Worm Weaves its Way Around the World

This April 2009 report from Proofpoint and Commtouch reviews spam and malware events from the first quarter of the year. The Conficker worm infected millions of machines worldwide while spam levels returned to levels similar to those seen before the shutdown of rogue ISP McColo.

Increasing levels of Russian language spam, ZDNet exploits, news themed spam, blended threats, social networking site exploits and phishing and more are summarized in this report.

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