Internet Threats Trend Report for the fourth quarter of 2009 has been published by Commtouch.

Highlights of the report include

• An average of 312,000 zombies were newly activated each day for the purpose of malicious activity.
• Spam levels averaged 77% of all email traffic throughout the quarter, peaking at 98% in November and bottoming out at 68% at the end of December.
• Sites in the “Computers & Technology” and “Search Engines & Portals” categories topped the list of Web categories manipulated by phishing schemes.
• "Business" continued to be the Web site category most infected with malware for the third quarter in a row.
• Cybercriminals use Facebook name to spread malware

Whole report or its parts can by published (without charge) in press and other media if source is published: www.security-increase.com