According to the January spam report from Symantec's MessageLabs hosted services arm, the Bagle botnet overtook Rustock as the primary source of spam traffic for this month.Rustock was the dominant spam botnet in 2010 and was responsible for 47.5% of all spam emails sent last year.M86 Security estimates that at ... |
25 January 2011
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Security researchers from MessageLabs, Symantec's email security arm, warn that spammers are increasingly using shortened URLs in their campaigns. Compared to the first half of 2009 when one in 1,769 spam emails contained a shortened URL, the ratio for H1 2010, was of one in 76. The trend is expected to continue... |
30 July 2010
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Symantec's Hosted Services, MessageLabs, reports that 90% of the daily spam output in the first half of 2010, consisting of 120 billion junk emails, is sent by five to six million compromised computers which are organized into botnets. The most spammed business sectors are engineering, automotive and accomodatio... |
14 July 2010
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False positives are not only potentially more annoying or damaging to computers than the viruses themselves, but they can also put a dent in the profits of legitimate businesses. The sales of a popular UK online florist shop dropped 50% after electronic communications security giant MessageLabs wrongfully tagged thei... |
20 December 2008
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Out of all the countries in the world, the United States are the most affected by spam (say security companies like Sophos and ScanSafe), followed closely by China. MessageLabs, company that specializes in providing messaging and Internet security solutions, has recently put together a top 10 of the most spammed US ... |
17 July 2008
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Security company Message labs has announced the results of its intelligence report for the 3rd quarter of 2007. Amongst other details, it reveals that virus and phishing levels have significantly increased, reaching levels that haven't been seen since early 2006. This is pretty bad, because it means that these m... |
28 September 2007
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