Spam is rising as we get closer to the Christmas holiday season according to Symantec, although they do say that phishing is down.

The company has shared some findings from its September State of Phishing report. According to the report, there was a 45 reduction in phishing attacks between July and August. Symantec says this will likely be a shortterm lull, however, reflecting the end of a particular toolkit attack on social networking sites.Symantec also anticipates an increase in holiday spam campaigns as spammers take advantage of not only the Christmas holiday season, but even sooner with Halloween.