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Russia has emerged as a "spam superpower", IT security experts warned today.. Traditional image spam is again on the decrease, but attachment spam - containing images as part of Microsoft Office files - is on the upswing, according to Symantec's "State of Spam" report for August. Happy birthday, spam. Saturday marked 30 years to the day when the first spam email was delivered. Spammers have launched their 2008 holiday season spam campaigns using email to tout pharmaceutical products and casino spam with a Christmas angle.
Levels of image spam dropped again in June, but researchers also saw increased use of PDF spam. Two security firms have revealed that spam attacks have increased in the last quarter. A web-hosting firm that apparently sent out more than 75 percent of worldwide spam has been knocked offline. As Americans go to the polls to elect their 44th President, the security industry is facing a possible end to spam linked to the candidates. Worldwide spam volumes have surged by 50 percent in the first quarter of 2008 revealed security vendor Proofpoint today, who now predicts enterprises will see inbound spam more than double this year. Though worldwide spam levels are still diminished in the wake of the McColo hosting-company shutdown, it may only be a matter of time before they come roaring back. Hyarchis has described the formal warning issued to it by ACMA over alleged SMS spam as a ‘slap in the face’ that sets a dangerous precedent for the entire web marketing industry.
Barracuda has announced it is opening up its spam blocking list for companies to use for free.
The fall in global spam levels after the shutting of web hosting company McColo looks to be short-lived after researchers reported that the Srizbi botnet has been reactivated.
Websense has detected a new round of 'Better Business Bureau' spam emails. A recent reduction in Yahoo and Hotmail spam has been caused by scientists. In the last six months, image-based spam has pushed its way to the forefront of spam technique discussions. Image-based spam is not new, but it is now wreaking havoc on the effectiveness of many anti-spam products. The infamous Storm botnet has been linked to a new spam run recorded earlier this week. The amount of unwanted email is again surging after a host of botnets -- led by the high-powered Srizbi network of compromised machines -- have reconnected to internet service providers. Researchers from University of California, Berkeley and UC, San Diego (UCSD) have published a report detailing how they hacked a spamming network to collect data on the economics of the problem. Spam email messages have fallen by eight per cent thanks to the demise on 20 September of California-based ISP Intercage, according to security vendor MessageLabs.