A report released by Sophos shows that the United States is still the global leader when it comes to spreading spam.
Even though the US is still on top of the chart, Asian countries seem to battle to keep up, the next three positions being occupied by South Korea, India and Russia.
The numbers reveal that South Kor... |
1 November 2011
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The United States spam levels have begun recovering in January which pushed the country back into the list of top 20 spam sources after two months of absence.According to data from Russian security vendor Kaspersky Lab, the overall amount of spam slightly increased last month by 0.5 percentage points and averaged 77.... |
22 February 2011
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According to a report from German antivirus vendor Avira, the number of country code top-level domains (ccTLDs) used to distribute malware has increased significantly during October.The biggest deviation was registered for .ru with a 73.92% increase compared to September. Despite this, .com remains the most abused TL... |
15 November 2010
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Google has created an extension for Chrome, which lets users easily report spam search results by adding a special link next to them.Google Chrome is the fastest growing browser at the moment and according to Net Applications it had an 8% market share in September.Because of it's sandbox model and other features... |
25 October 2010
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According to Kaspersky Lab's spam report for August, Hong Kong was the second most spammmiest region after the United States last month and was responsible for 7.7 percent of the world's junk emails.The overall spam output has decreased by 2.4% in August compared to July and averaged at 82.6% of the total e... |
22 September 2010
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Symatec reports that the output of malware-carrying spam has tripled in August, while the number of junk emails containing .ZIP attachments has increased four-fold. It seems that this unusual spike was caused by the Zbot and Sasfis distribution campaigns, which are still on going.Both of the threats are computer troj... |
9 September 2010
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During the last quarter Europe has overtaken Asia in junk mail output and is currently the continent generating the most spam traffic according to a report from antivirus vendor Sophos. As far as spam-relaying countries are concerned, the United States remains in the first position, but has extended its lead.Accordin... |
14 July 2010
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According to a report from AppRiver, over ten percent of spam messages intercepted in the past six months distributed some form of malware. During the same time, almost 45% of junk email traffic originated in Europe. The latest statistics compiled AppRiver, an email and Web security vendor based out of Gulf Bree... |
2 July 2010
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Avira reports that the number of PDF documents rigged with malware rose by 50 percent in May compared with the previous month. Data gathered by the company also reveals that .ru was the preferred country code TLD for hosting malware and that .br had the largest number of phishing websites. According to the German an... |
17 June 2010
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According to a report (PDF) from email and web security company MX Logic, pharmacy and other healthcare-related junk e-mails accounted for almost 69% of all spam last month. Meanwhile, malware authors preferred the fake invoice theme to distribute their creations via email.The email and web filtering solutions vendor... |
1 September 2009
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Spammers radically changed their methods from what they used last year. If, at the end of June 2007, 60% of spammers used images in order to make people swallow the bait, the percentage dropped to 3% at the end of June 2008. On the other hand, after conducting a global study, BitDefender researchers noticed the reviv... |
1 August 2008
10:25 GMT |
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Spam has followed the natural evolution course of advertising. First designed only for computers, now, as the mobile ads continue to increase in importance, the unwanted messages have ported to the handheld devices in a flash. What better place to target with such an attack than the biggest mobile communications mark... |
24 March 2008
06:58 GMT |
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The numbers above might sound stellar, but let's not forget that we're talking about spam here, and the quality-over-quality rule doesn't quite apply: ask any spammer and he'll tell you that the more, the merrier. The Tokyo police found one of these merry men today and arrested him for sending nin... |
15 February 2008
15:16 GMT |
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