Fortinet has replaced its Top 10 most-reported malware report with Threatscape, a monthly report which will show activities by threat type, volume, region and trends.
In its first edition, Threatscape looks at the threat landscape for October and evaluates nefarious online activities by category, exploits and vulnerabilities, malware, spam and blocked Web traffic.
“With this inaugural edition of the Threatscape report, our goal is to both broaden and deepen the threat content and offer customers, consumers, researchers and others more information to better mitigate their own online risks,” said Derek Manky, security researcher for Fortinet.
The report concludes that scareware - rogue security applications - was the top malware category for the month.
Malware volumes increased from 10 million in April to 30 million in September - with 38.6% of this concentrated in Japan and 32.9% in the US.
According to the report, the percentage of e-mail tagged as spam was down 10% in October - a trend the report calls “precipitous and uncharacteristic”.
It also notes that exploits were on the rise, with 14 of the 18 active exploits considered in the critical risk categories.
The report also showed pornography as top of the list of Web threat sites that were blocked, followed by malware, spyware and phishing sites.
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