It seems as the geography of spam has changed in the past year. While in 2010 the U.S. and Europe were leaders, this year Asia and South America seem to be the place from where most malicious campaigns are launched.
A recent study made by Kaspersky reveals that the sources are mainly located in countries that up u... |
13 September 2011
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Symantec's MessageLabs division reports that spam volume has decreased in March by two percent following the takedown of the Rustock botnet, but warns that Bagle is taking its place.In its monthly intelligence report [pdf], the Symantec researchers point out that last month 83.1% of the global spam traffic was g... |
30 March 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 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 vendors warn that Rustock, the largest spam botnet in the world, which has been inactive since Christmas, suddenly started spamming again in full force.Rustock is a botnet that dates back several years. It had its ups and downs along the way, but it reached its peak last year after dropping TLS encryption an... |
10 January 2011
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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
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According to a report from security vendor Kaspersky, the spam traffic declined slightly last month and so did the number of emails carrying malicious attachments.During September, spam levels averaged at 81.1%, which is 1.5% lower than what they were in August. The most active spam category was medications.The pharm... |
29 October 2010
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According to data gathered by Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT), the United States had the highest number of computers infected with botnet malware, during the first half of 2010.Botnet are armies of infected computers, which connect to remote command and control (C&C) servers and listen to inst... |
14 October 2010
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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
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Symantec reports that spam accounted for almost 92 percent of all email traffic last month, while the number of emails with malicious attachments has decreased compared to June.Spam output has again passed the ninety percent mark in July, with junk emails representing 91.98% of the total traffic, compared to 88.32% i... |
12 August 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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According to a report on spam trends for the second quarter of 2009, released by antivirus vendor Sophos, the U.S. were the primary source of junk mails for the past few months. Meanwhile, Brazil came in second, a place previously occupied by Russia during the same period in 2008. Sophos compiled what it calls the ... |
20 July 2009
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