18 May 2011 |
The unexpected raid and resulting death of Osama Bin Laden shocked the world. As always, spammers were quick to jump on this headline and send a variety of spam messages leveraging the event. The “Fallout from the Death of Osama Bin Laden” section includes samples of some of the spam monitored in different languages.
16 Mar 2011 |
As predicted in last month’s report, average daily global spam volume increased month-over-month for the first time since August 2010. The average daily spam volume increased 8.7 percent in February. This rise in spam volume also increased the overall spam percentage, as spam made up 80.65 percent of all messages in February, compared with 79.55 percent in January.
03 Mar 2011 |
In this blog published in January, we followed-up on the spam volume saga as the Rustock botnet returned to action on January 10. At the time, it looked like the holidays were over for spammers. Did the prediction hold up?
11 Feb 2011 |
The global spam volume, which has been the discussion topic for several months, appears to have finally stopped its decline. The month-over-month global spam volume was down in January again, but this was mostly due to the Rustock botnet shutdown, seen for the first 10 days of the year.
13 Jan 2011 |
Even spammers take a holiday break after all.
Spam made up 81.69% of all messages in December, compared with 84.31% in November. We have been tracking the decline in spam for few months now, and there were several interesting developments in this area.
12 Jan 2011 |
In this blog about spam volume, we discussed the virtual shutdown of three botnets including Rustock that caused the global spam volume to plummet around Christmas day.
16 Dec 2010 |
The volume of spam continues to drop.
