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Study: Spammers Changing Strategy
Global spam levels reached an all-time high of 95 percent of all e-mails at its peak during the third quarter of 2007, according to a new report by Commtouch®. The study, based on the automated analysis of billions of e-mail messages, noted the emergence of new kinds of attachment spam such as PDF spam and Excel spam.
There's a growing threat of innocent appearing spam containing links to malicious Web sites, the report indicated. The common thread to all of the nasty activities is the utilization of zombie botnets -- networks of compromised computers that are used to launch the blended spam/malware attacks, officials said. A bit of good news: image spam is on the decline.
Posted by Andrew on November 19, 2007 09:22 AM | Permalink
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