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 said that 35% 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%, said the company. And in the opening quarter of 2007, a mere 3.3% of the intercepted threats carried links. Number of malicious e-mails with bad links balloons 10-fold - Network World

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