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Q1 2013 Report: 973 Million Malware Emails Sent Out Each Day

Security firm Commtouch has released its Internet Threats Trend Report for the first quarter of 2013. The company reveals that, in the first three months of this year, a whopping 97.4 billion spam emails and 973 million malware emails were sent out each day. Spam levels increased by 98% and phishing by 74% compared...

2 May 2013
18:11 GMT

Commtouch Report: 178,246 Pieces of Android Malware Collected in January 2013

Security firm Commtouch has released its February 2013 Internet Threats Trend Report. The study shows that in January, a total of 178,246 unique Android malware samples were collected. This represents a 16% drop compared to December, but the last month of 2012 is considered to be an anomaly. Experts believe that w...

27 February 2013
14:21 GMT

87 Billion Spam Emails Sent Out Each Day in Q3 of 2012, Commtouch Reports

Most security solutions providers have released their threat reports for the third quarter of 2012. One of these companies is Commtouch, whose Q3 study offers some interesting insight and even more interesting numbers, especially when it comes to spam. The figures from the report show that, on average, 87 billion sp...

25 October 2012
16:11 GMT

F-Prot Maker FRISK Acquired by Commtouch

Although F-Prot antivirus will no longer be developed by the Icelandic developer, this should not affect its users in any way because Commtouch will continue support for Frisk customers, channel partners and distributors. According to Commtouch CEO Shlomi Yanai, the development of F-Prot will not cease, on the contr...

1 August 2012
10:53 GMT

Spam Levels Declined by as Much as 30 Percent During Last Quarter of 2010

According to a report from security provider Commtouch, the daily spam levels have declined by as much as 30% during Q4 2010, compared to months from the previous quarter.Spam volume has been on a downward trend since the beginning of October, when the Spamit rogue online pharmacy affiliate program closed down.This a...

3 January 2011
13:29 GMT

Commtouch Completes Acquisition of Command Antivirus

Web and email security provider Commtouch has finalized the acquisition of Authentium's Command antivirus division, therefore adding an anti-malware solution to its portfolio.The Command antivirus line of products was created by Command Software, a security company dating back to 1984 and acquired in 2002 by Aut...

7 September 2010
13:56 GMT

Drug Sites Go Down, Drug Spam Goes Up

According to CASA (short for Columbia University's National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse) the number of drug selling sites is declining. If last year the number of sites that offered to sell drugs was of 581, this year it has dropped to 365. According to the Commtouch Q2 report, the favorite topic am...

11 July 2008
05:22 GMT

Commtouch Claims Bots Win the Spam War

According to Commtouch, a US based company that specializes in providing e-mail safety solutions, and the quarterly report that it has recently released, malware and spam traffic is still at alarmingly high levels mainly because of the millions and millions of infected machines. The report analyzes the day to day ev...

10 July 2008
09:51 GMT


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