According to a report from Trend Micro, junk emails with a medical theme were the most common type of spam observed this year, even though they didn't always lead to rogue pharmacy websites.Medicine has always been among the top categories of spam, but even more so this year as malware distributors and phi... |
29 December 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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Using data gathered by its Postini email security solution, Google estimates that there was less spam this quarter than during the same period last year. Despite this, the quantity of emails carrying viruses has more than doubled. The company also warns of a surge in email attacks using malicious obfuscated JavaScrip... |
20 July 2010
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According to a report from antivirus giant Symantec, spam messages amounted for over 86% of all emails sent last month. Meanwhile, the number of emails distributing malware has increased nine times since August and now represents 1.3% of all spam.Symantec's monthly State of Spam report (PDF) reveals that spam tr... |
12 October 2009
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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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Google has released its "Spam data and trends" report for the first quarter of 2009. According to the statistics compiled by the Google security and archiving team, during the last half of March, the weekly spam volume has been the same as before the McColo ISP, a former cybercrime haven shut down last November... |
1 April 2009
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