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Thursday, 01 October 2009 07:24

New botnets hitting the net, Oz spam levels higher than global average

New botnets are reportedly causing more havoc on the Internet, with botnets now responsible for sending 87.9 percent of all spam, including one of the oldest and largest botnets which has doubled in size in just four months.

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Wednesday, 26 August 2009 09:02

Dramatic drop in virus-infected emails hitting Australia

Australia has dropped like a stone from its number one spot as the country receiving the most virus-infected emails to number 12 in the world, but our level of spam activity is still above the global average despite Australian spam activity decreasing by two percent this month.

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Wednesday, 22 July 2009 08:23

Spammers get the upper hand: spam levels at all time high

According to Marshal8e6's TRACElabs weekly spam volumes have broken the record set in July 2008, and have risen 60 percent since the start of 2008 with spammers having learnt how to minimise disruptions to their operations caused by the shutting down of one of their major botnets.

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Sunday, 12 July 2009 20:44

Reddit readers rage at thankless Linux Twitter-bot

Readers of the Linux section on popular Web 2.0 social networking site Reddit discovered a Twitter bot was tweeting stories listed on the site without attribution. As punishment Redditers decided to turn the bot into their puppet, mouthing whatever they commanded.

Published in The Linux Distillery

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Wednesday, 08 July 2009 10:04

Increased threat from short URLs: Report

There’s been a huge rise in the use of shortened URLs by spammers which poses a greater security threat to Internet users, including those accessing popular social network sites like Twitter.

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Tuesday, 30 June 2009 10:25

Spam levels stable: Symantec

Spam levels remain at 90 percent, according to security provider Symantec. But the situation would have worsened if a major botnet hadn't suffered downtime during June.

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Thursday, 11 June 2009 14:03

Twitter phishing hit, as spam infiltrates 90% of all emails

Spam levels climbed to nearly 90 percent of all email last month with some worrying new trends emerging, like the booming Twitter site being used as bait to phish for information.

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Monday, 20 April 2009 17:23

Which way up is Google?

If you want to keep the spambots out of Gmail then you might want to try a bit of upside down thinking.

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Thursday, 16 April 2009 14:30

Conficker likely to cause rise in spam levels

That devil of a Conficker worm that’s never far from the surface these days is likely to cause a significant increase in spam levels over the next three months, according to a report by yet another security firm that’s closely monitoring the worm’s exploits.

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Friday, 10 April 2009 04:25

Warning: Conficker worm finally wakes up

Could the speculation surrounding the Conficker payload be coming to an end as the latest variant of the virulent worm reveals its hand in the form of links to the Waledac malware family and talk of rogue antivirus installations?

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Wednesday, 28 January 2009 11:52

Way to beat spam: attack the source not the symptoms

After years of fighting a losing battle against the growing deluge of spam swamping the net, security and law enforcement agencies finally struck their first blow of any consequence late last year when they managed to shut down the servers of a major spam hosting provider. Now authorities are looking for other ways to attack the root of the problem rather than just the symptoms.

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Tuesday, 09 December 2008 18:34

Undead Mega-D is back in control of the sex spam zombies

Look, everyone knew the day was coming, there is no escaping that fact. It doesn't make it any the more disappointing, but it should hardly be filed under surprise of the year: the Mega-D Botnet is back in action.

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Tuesday, 02 December 2008 07:45

Srizbi down but not quite out

The Srizbi botnet has proved sufficiently robust to partially recover from the isolation of its command and control servers. So much for claims that it was 'completely defunct'.

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Wednesday, 26 November 2008 11:19

Spam Wars: Return of the Rustock

I hope you enjoyed the brief respite from spam that was observed following the takedown of McColo, because levels are rising again.

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Thursday, 13 November 2008 11:02

Hosting provider takedown slashes spam volumes

Could isolating just one hosting company significantly affect spam volumes? Apparently it can - and has!

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Wednesday, 15 October 2008 20:44

Death of a Botnet

The once King of Spam is dead. But before you celebrate too much, His Royal Spamness has been terminally ill for many months, and there are plenty of young pretenders ready to wear the junk mail crown.

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Tuesday, 19 August 2008 23:24

An Inconvenient Truth: Spam Sells Lots of Sex and Drugs

It is the question that everyone who stops to think about the amount of spam they get asks at least once: does anyone actually buy this stuff? The answer, it seems, is that 29 percent of us do and we are buying sex and drugs...

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Tuesday, 12 August 2008 18:40

What is the speed of spam? 7.8 billion messages per hour!

The key findings of the latest Marshal Threat Research and Content Engineering (TRACE) report for the first half of 2008 have just been published. Unsurprisingly, they make for some pretty ugly reading...

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Friday, 08 August 2008 15:59

Rustock takes spambot gold with Olympic surge

When it comes to endurance races, the Srizbi spambot takes some beating as far as distributing the most malicious spam across the planet is concerned. Thanks to an Olympic surge from new kid on the bot race blocks, Rustock, has sprinted past the old man of spam to take a dubious gold...

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