Tag: Spam

Analysis conducted by technology security company Websense shows that spammers are increasingly using social engineering techniques to lure clicks from unsuspecting email receivers.

Spam accounted for more than eight in every ten emails received in September, reducing productivity for businesses worldwide as employees clear out their inboxes and often miss important messages.

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Spam email messages appearing to come from LinkedIn are bombarding the inboxes of businesses around the world spreading the ZeuS malware that aims to capture your personal information and banking details.

The Storm Botnet, responsible for the majority of spam email on the internet is now resorting to using URL shortening services made popular by Twitter such bit.ly and tinyurl.com to bypass spam filters.

A wave of fraudulent emails purporting to be from the Australian Government are in circulation currently, reportedly concerning Tax Refunds and the end of financial year.

Analysis reveals that the percentage of spam related to football and soccer keywords since March 2010 has approached 25 percent of all global spam in the build-up to the FIFA World Cup.

Symantec Corp has announced the publication of its April 2010 MessageLabs Intelligence Report.

Spam email, when analysed by sender location, more targeted attacks actually originated in China (28.2 percent), Romania (21.1 percent) and United States (13.8 percent).

In March the global ratio of spam in email traffic from new and previously unknown bad sources was 90.7 percent globally (1 in 1.10 emails), an increase of 1.5 percentage points since February. In Australia spam emails represented 90.1 percent of the total.