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AV-Test.org - AV-ATLAS: The Research Platform for Spam, Malware, and Threat Trends
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On the Internet, you may find many statistical surveys, but rarely open sources for the research. AV-ATLAS is different in that respect: there you can call up live data, free of charge, on the latest malware and spam, or you can conveniently analyze threat trends. Interested professionals can even subscribe to entire data flows for analysis.

The AV-ATLAS platform serves many needs at once: Those interested in latest spam statistics, but having no specialized knowledge, can call up the prepared charts in real time. Knowledgeable users who want to dig a little deeper can customize the data set and receive their own individual chart. Absolute pros will tend to click past the charts and subscribe to entire data flows for their own database analysis.

AV-ATLAS – data source in real time

Over the past 15 years, the AV-TEST lab has developed many data sources and analyzes them on its own. This is also necessary, because an independent test institute could never rely on data from manufacturers whose products it is subsequently testing. That is why the lab at AV-TEST utilizes as a lure for cyber-gangsters many of its own honeypots, servers, mail accounts, websites, or other data traps, collecting infected e- mails, data, scripts and much more, and examines everything in analysis machines developed in-house. This constant data flow is then broken down logically into smaller flows, which form the data backbone of AV-ATLAS. To ensure that the platform will not become unmanageable, given the plethora of data, it always reflects a data collection of the past 14 days. After all, AV-ATLAS shows current data and does not necessarily want to be known as an archive for evaluating data of the past several years. Retrospective analysis is possible, however, for customers wanting to subscribe to entire analysis channels and evaluating them over a longer term.

Current threats at a glance

As already mentioned at the outset, AV-ATLAS also seeks to help journalists or academic staffers without previous expert knowledge to quickly arrive at substantive research findings. The "Current Threats" section, for instance, offers an overview of all the security areas covered by the platform, e.g.: spam trends, mail attachments, mail content, and subject lines, phishing mails, malware, and affected platforms such as Windows, Android, Linux, or Mac. A click on "phishing e-mails" shows an overview of all countries of origin for spam mails. In dispelling anticipated clichés, the findings show that the United States was No. 1 in spam in April 2021, and Russia only came in second.

The "Current Threats" section is thus a trend thermometer showing special hotspots. For greater clarity, the Institute has created six additional evaluation sections: Spam, Blackhat URLs, Flare Whitelist, Malware & PUA, IoT and Android Flare. Whereas some of the buzzwords, e.g. spam, are largely known, many people would be puzzled by the term Flare Whitelist. We explain to you below which popular evaluations are behind the special terms.

Spam: understanding and evaluating analyses

Even people having no specialized knowledge ought to be familiar with the nuisance of spam. How dangerous spam can be, however, is underscored by the term known as phishing, as it is a subheading for specialized spam e-mails for luring in or "phishing" for users. The overview quickly shows the volume of the spam and the percentage of e-mails with harmless, yet forwarding or infected attachments. Another interesting feature is the automatically generated world map: it clearly shows the current countries of origin for most spam.

To enable user groups quick access to important evaluations, the "Spam Statistics" section offers ready-made charts. They can be shared with others or saved for own use. Likewise, the "Trends" section shows a total of seven pre-evaluated lists of spam countries of origin, languages, attachments and more.

Those who want to delve deeper into the data can click the "Mails & Attachments" section. In that section, the individual spam e-mails can be manually sorted and compared according to subject or attachments. Selection criteria such as  "Seen 15 minutes ago" are a testimony to just how up-to-date the platform is.

A few additional facts: AV-ATLAS analyzes, scans, and classifies roughly 2,000 e-mails per day. The spam volume is not always relevant, which is why e-mails already recorded multiple times are not considered in the analysis, yet they are reflected in a rising trend barometer.
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