Posted on Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 at 5:51 pm
The percentage of threats arriving in e-mail that rely on links to malicious sites — rather than arriving as a file attachment — has ballooned 10-fold since the first quarter of the year, a security company said today.
In a report published Thursday, U.K.-based MessageLabs Ltd. said that 35 percent of the e-mail threats it now detects use embedded links to infect computers instead of the more traditional file attachments. In the March-June time frame, that figure was 20.2 percent, said the company. And in the opening quarter of 2007, a mere 3.3 percent of the intercepted threats carried links.
