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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Commtouch detection team informed me that a new blended threat outbreak of Chinese Earthquake messages began earlier today, with a similar modus operandi to the previous outbreak, the main difference being that the URL hyperlinks within the messages are to zombie IP addresses (the X’s in the sample below), rather than fast flux domains in [...]
I just returned from Madrid, where I represented Commtouch at 3Com’s TechConnect EMEA event, which was a great time. Together with 3Com’s Sean Newman, Product Manager, I presented the new messaging security in 3Com’s X-Family Unified Security Platforms to eager attendees comprised of their extended sales force. People are excited about the new GlobalView Mail [...]
The Dutch gang has been held accountable for creating a 1.5 million machine botnet, financial theft, cyber blackmail and dealings with the Russian mafia.
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Terry Zink proposes a Two-Point spam filtering program on his anti-spam blog. The system would use a large pool of end-users to classify messages as spam/non-spam and then feed those classifications into a Bayesian filter to train it to recognize spam. He claims the system would be fast, but suffer from inaccuracy. Seems to me [...]
Interesting observation. From where I stand, looking at the overall email traffic in the last few weeks, there was a slight slowdown right after new year’s, but that slowdown is already gone and the total email traffic is on the slow-n-steady rise again. If indeed that large botmaster lost a botnet, or if many new [...]
