The recently released Commtouch 2007 Q4 Email Threats Trend Report shows that during the last quarter global spam average 80% of all email traffic and reached 96% at it’s peak in October.
Since everyone reports spam levels a little differently, we’d like to take this opportunity to explain how we measure global spam levels here at [...]
The recently released Commtouch Q3 2007 Email Threats Trends Report shows that global spam levels reached as high as 95% during the last three months.
Every quarter when we report this statistic we say to ourselves ‘Wow, that’s really high! It couldn’t possibly get any higher,’ and every ensuing quarter spam proves it can. Altough 95% [...]
Way back in March, CTO Amir Lev was quoted in a SearchSecurity article as saying that audio spam shouldn’t be too far away. We even went so far as to create some samples in our labs (no, we didn’t give them to any spammers :). And finally, as of late last night, the spammers have [...]
The Commtouch Detection Center has just reported that PDF spam has been spiking over the last 24 hours, making up 10-15% of all spam messages. Given the fact that these messages are nearly 4x bigger than ’standard’ spam messages, this increases overall global spam traffic by 30-40%.
The new technique of sending spam messages as a [...]
Hoping to tackle the growing problem of pump-and-dump stock scams Microsoft has quietly filed lawsuits against at least three alleged perpetrators who it says used its MSN Hotmail networks to promote stocks.
Pump-and-dump spam has not only taken up resources and threatened the smooth functioning of Hotmail, but it “continues to result in significant costs to [...]
Matt Hines at InfoWorld reports:
Security researchers have been touting the growing nature of professionalism among virus authors over the last several years, but new evidence points to increased cooperation between malware writers spread around the globe, according to some experts.
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