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Web malware grew by 139 percent

Cisco’s latest global threat report reveals that Web malware increased by 139 percent in 2010 compared with the previous year. The rate of Web malware encounters peaked …

Spammers gearing up for Valentine’s Day

A spam run that supposedly offers flowers to send to your loved one is currently landing in inboxes around the world, but a click on the “Order Now” button takes …

Widespread “undelivered package” spam attack delivers Trojans

Cybercriminals are currently sending out the spam messages – which come attached with a malware infected .zip file – with titles such as “Post Express …

WatchGuard XCS gains spam blocking and encryption capabilities

WatchGuard released a free update to its XCS (extensible content security) line of email and web content security appliances that includes new features to make stopping spam …

Dramatic increase in malware and phishing via social networks

By mid-2010, Facebook recorded half a billion active users, making it not only the largest social networking site, but also one of the most popular destinations on the web. …

Bogus airline charge leads to Zeus Trojan

A recent spam campaign is targeting frequent users of a popular German airline carrier, baiting them with a exorbitant bogus fee that has apparently been charged to their …

Waledac botnet wakes up after 7 days of sleep

Waledac appeared in a new version in the last days of 2010, sending out big amounts of New Year related spam messages. It then stopped spamming in the evening of January 4th, …

Spam increases 45% this week

Spam levels started bouncing back this week after a significant decrease in the fourth quarter. December’s daily average for spam was around 30% less than in September; …

38 billion spam e-mails: A sign of things to come?

Over the last twelve months, AppRiver quarantined more than 38 billion spam messages, almost double the amount quarantined just two years ago. Of that total, 450 million …

USA number one as spam becomes more malicious

Sophos has published the latest ‘Dirty Dozen’ of spam relaying countries, covering the fourth quarter of 2010. The United States increased its lead at the top …

Spam moving to social networks and mobile

Following the recent news on global spam levels falling, Jamie Tomasello, Abuse Operations Manager at Cloudmark, outlines her thoughts on why spammers are moving from email to …

Is Google losing its fight against spam?

Once upon a time, Google was unequivocally the best and the most popular search engine in the world. Ranking pages by how they were interconnected (linked) to other sites, …

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