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Stories about: MessageLabs report

Rustock Drops TLS and Doubles Its Spam Output According to a report from Symantec's MessageLabs arm, Rustock remains the largest spam-sending botnet and has doubled its output after stopping using TLS to encrypt email traffic.These days spam traffic is pretty much exclusively generated by botnets; as much as 95% at the moment, according to the latest Messag... 8 September 2010 15:50 GMT Ninety Percent of Malicious Sites are Infected Legitimate Ones According to a Symantec report 90% of all websites used to spread malware or launch attacks against users are legitimate ones that have been compromised. For over half of the remaining 10%, that are malicious by design, attackers register new domains every day.The data used to compile the report (PDF) comes from Mess... 8 July 2010 11:56 GMT Spam Distribution Reaches Almost pre-McColo Levels According to a report (PDF) released by MessageLabs, a leader in electronic communications security, the distribution levels of junk e-mails have reached between 80%-90% of what they were before the takedown of the notorious McColo ISP in November. The Mega-D botnet has picked up the previous “market share&rdqu... 27 January 2009 05:28 GMT