In our first half (1H) of 2012 Advanced Threat Report, we looked at various factors related to email-based attack trends, including exploit vector type (e.g., link/attachment), domain frequency, and attachment polymorphism. With the holiday season starting back up, we’ll refocus our attention on all the corresponding threat data collected quarter-to-date for 2012. To be clear, these statistics reflect the number of malicious attachments seen after initial SPAM and anti-virus filtering across our customer deployments, who share intelligence back to us.

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