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% [...]
The company announced today that 9 new OEM deals were signed in Q3, bringing the total licensing partners to 82.
Which begs the obvious question: why are there still so many companies looking for innovative, content-neutral anti-spam and anti-malware solutions? The answer may be in the Osterman report quoted in the press release, which states that [...]
McAfee security researcher Nick Kelly raised a concern on his blog that the recent rash of Excel spam could develop to include macro exploits. We did see a mini-macro comeback last year, so this is certainly a possibility, though I haven’t seen any samples yet.
PDF spam could also carry a potential malware threat as that [...]
Well it’s about time someone decided to distribute a stock pump&dump message inside an excel file.
Commtouch first identified and blocked this new type of spam on Saturday, July 21, at 1:20 pm GMT. The Excel spam promotes stocks in file attachments with names like “invoice20202.xls,” “stock information-3572.xls,” and “requested report.xls.”
Of course this seems like a [...]
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 [...]
We all know that the evil forces behind spam, beyond being evil, are also quite prolific. In the tit-for-tat war between junkmail senders and the anti-spam community, the junkers have come up with yet another trick - PDF spam. Some of what we are seeing is really just ‘Image spam 2.0′ because it’s just another [...]
The Pew Internet and American Life Project recently published the results of a survey about how American’s relate to spam. The overall conclusion is that “The volume of spam is growing in Americans’ personal and workplace email accounts, but email users are less bothered by it.”
So what does this mean for those of us in [...]
We reported last month in the Commtouch Q1 2007 Spam Trends Report that a new kind of spam had appeared that links to a hosted image rather that embedding it in the message itself. In the samples reported on spammers fraudulently hijacked legimate email newsletters and implanted a reference to a spam image at the [...]
ICSA Labs, a division of CyberTrust, announced the formation of the Anti-Spam Product Developers’ Consortium on April 11, 2007.
Among the coalition members companies like Astaro, COMDOM, Fortinet, IBM, Kaspersky, Proofpoint, SECNAP, Sendio, SonicWALL and Symantec. The coalition plans to meet regularly to discuss issues and devlopments in world of the spam and spam-fighting, to provide [...]
