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 beauty of having a system the works automatically is that we don’t necessarily notice big outbreaks until they’ve already happened and been blocked (and even then we need to look for them). That’s what turned out to have been happening the last couple weeks, when the makers of the Stration malware - one of [...]
Spammers have once again sunk their fangs into Halloween and flooded email with holiday themed threats. When I was a kid parents feared tainted trick-or-treat candy. Now they can add spyware and computer viruses to their list of worries.
Keep your eyes out for a “dancing skeleton” spam attack which contains links to malicious web sites. [...]
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% [...]
