The global spam rate for July was the highest seen since March 2015

The global spam rate for July was the highest seen since March 2015, increasing to 54.9 percent, reports Symantec in its July Intelligence report. Similar proportion of spam also reports the Kaspersky lab in its Spam and phishing in Q2 2017 report, however not indicating a peak in spam traffic. Both companies use their own metrics and mostly report on spam identified by their systems.