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There has been a vast increase in spam making reference to troubled high street banks. 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. 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. Internet users still make irresponsible online purchasing decisions despite ongoing warnings about the dangers of responding to unsolicited emails, a new survey has found. The infamous Storm botnet has been linked to a new spam run recorded earlier this week. Spammers are increasingly using 'out of office' features in web-based email to relay junk messages, security experts warned today.. The majority of spam is currently sent from the US but experts predict it won’t be long till developing nations take the lead. Spammers are using downloadable coupons as a method of spreading malware. Social networking giant Facebook has been awarded a hefty US$837m judgment against a Canadian spammer under the US Can-Spam Act. Malware-laden messages on the increase. A malicious spam campaign is threatening to disconnect users from the Internet as a result of their online activities, Sophos reports. Spammers are changing tactics again slightly, but sticking with the basic new theme of disguising spam under the banner of news.
Although down in recent months, around 150bn spam messages are sent every day, according to the latest quarterly Secure Computing Internet Threats Report.
Spam significantly increased in the second quarter of 2008, security vendor Sophos reported today. McAfee has released the results of its Spammed Persistently All Month campaign.. The crisis on Wall Street is contributing to the largest rise in email-borne malware since February 2007. Sophos is warning Sydney residents that they are the target of a large scale spam campaign which claims a powerful nuclear explosion has occurred. Web monitoring firms are warning IT administrators to update their spam filters after a massive new spamming campaign was detected. Robert Alan Soloway, the so-called "spam king," pleaded guilty on Friday after prosecutors charged him with using botnets to deliver millions of unwanted junk mail messages to victims across the world. Six botnets are generating about 85 percent of all spam, according to security researchers at Marshal's TRACE labs. Mega-D and Srizbi have been trading places recently at the top of the spam menace list.