Security researchers from M86 Security warn that since the beginning of August the quantity of malware-carrying spam has spiked to levels far exceeding those before the SpamIt shutdown.The unexpected closure of the largest rogue pharmacy affiliate program, SpamIt, in October 2010, is used as a point of reference in s... |
18 August 2011
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McAfee reports that during the previous quarter, the daily malware growth has averaged at 60,000 new samples, which is the highest value ever recorded.According to the security giant, the number of threats detected this year (14 million) also exceeds the number analyzed in all previous years."In 2007 we identified on... |
17 November 2010
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Antivirus vendor Trend Micro warns that Russia is quickly climbing up the list of top spammiest countries and is playing a major role on the spam landscape.Russia's month-to-month growth in spam output was impressive. In August it was in seventh place on the list of top 10 spam-sending countries.It then jumped t... |
16 November 2010
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Google reports that the overall number of infected emails grew by 42% during the last quarter, but a massive surge was observed during August in particular.According to data gathered via its Postini email security and archiving services, spam levels decreased by 16% during Q3 compared to the previous quarter and by 2... |
19 October 2010
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As the security researchers speculated back in November, the happy times when fewer junk mails hit our inboxes were not bound to last. Dropping to under 40% of what they were before the takedown of infamous hoster McColo, the spam levels are now at over 60 percent. On November 11, following a collaborative effort fro... |
10 December 2008
10:35 GMT |
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