Unbeknownst to computer owners, malware infects millions of computers around the world. Many times, these malicious software programs create “zombies,” or “bots” where the computer is taken over by an outside party and used to send spam or perform other notorious processes. An army of zombies makes up a “botnet,” which is a network of [...]
This morning when I dropped by the spam analysts’ work area for my daily check of “what’s new in spam” I noticed they were in a bit of a tizzy. Spam levels had dropped from their usual high levels and they were looking for the reason why.
We’ve seen spam levels growing pretty steadily over the [...]
Commtouch announced a new version of our GlobalView Mail Reputation Service, that incorporates enhanced reporting as well as enhanced logic capabilities.
From earlier posts you’ve seen that zombies (aka bots) are responsible for almost all of the unwanted mail traversing the Internet. With even a not-very-good reputation service, you should be able to cut those quantities [...]
Commtouch recently announced our Q2 email threat trend report, which indicated, among other things:
Spam levels throughout the second quarter averaged 77%, ranging from a low of 64% to a peak of 94% of all email towards the end of the quarter
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Last month we released our new service – GlobalView Zombie Intelligence. Commtouch Zombie Intelligence is a real-time feed of data containing zombies IPs along with rich information about their activity and behavior.
As a result of our research and development in the field of zombies and bots, we are constantly gathering a vast amount of data [...]
ZDNet’s Richard Stiennon just published his Ten threat predictions for 2008. Number 8 on his list is an ominous warning that we ain’t seen nothing yet from the Storm Trojan peer-to-peer botnet:
8. The world learns what the Storm Trojan is for. The Storm Trojan is one of the most sophisticated pieces of malware ever. It has [...]
