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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. Levels of image spam dropped again in June, but researchers also saw increased use of PDF spam. 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. 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 majority of spam is currently sent from the US but experts predict it won’t be long till developing nations take the lead. 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. 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. Spammers are increasingly using 'out of office' features in web-based email to relay junk messages, security experts warned today.. Spammers are finding new ways to bypass filters, but that doesn't mean you have to let them bombard your inbox. Rob Buckley reports One spam related web page is appearing approximately every three seconds on the Internet according to Sophos’s latest quarterly spam report. A new spam attack falsely alerts users to download a Microsoft patch in an attempt to install malicious malware. McAfee has released the results of its Spammed Persistently All Month campaign.. Internet users still make irresponsible online purchasing decisions despite ongoing warnings about the dangers of responding to unsolicited emails, a new survey has found. Spammers are changing tactics again slightly, but sticking with the basic new theme of disguising spam under the banner of news.
Google and eBay have joined forces to protect users from spam and malicious emails by leveraging an authentication technology called DomainKeys. 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.