American Zombies Blamed for Bulk of Spam
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Sophos attributed the US&#39;s ranking to the prevalence of high-capacity broadband Internet connections there. Small offices and home users with such connections are attractive targets that increasingly
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer provided some perspective for anyone who thinks they are getting too much spam. &quot;There are two people who probably are the number one spam recipients in the world.
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Making use of the current trend to send festive greetings via email, a new virus is making the rounds. A variant of the ZAFI worm, the WORM_Zafi.
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Whatever happened to mass-mailing viruses? The lazy, hazy days of summer witnessed a continuation of the ongoing shift from large-scale virus outbreaks toward phishing and more targeted attacks, according to a study by net security firm MessageLabs.â¦
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The United States topped the list of spam-sending countries in 2004, according to a list produced by anti-spam and anti-virus software company Sophos.
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According to a new report by Deborah Fallows at the Pew Internet & American Life Project, the percentage of people who think that spam is increasing has risen steadily. Nonetheless, the Pew report also found that spam is less bothersome to e-mail users than it once was.
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&quot;Many home users&#39; computers are sending out spam because they have had their broadband Internet connections exploited by remote hackers.
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As image spam declines, a new type of pest takes its place.
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It&#39;s an ill wind, as they say. If you believe the word on the anti-spam lists, Hurricanes Charley, Frances and Ivan have all disrupted one of Florida&#39;s major internet businesses: spamming.
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NEW YORK AOL says it looks like some spammers are starting to throw in the cyber towel. The world&#39;s largest Internet service provider says that the number of attempted e-mails was down 500 (m) million -- or
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Some clever, sexy Christmas-themed spam and a long holiday season helped the criminals behind the notorious&#160;Storm Worm&#160;more than double their network of infected PCs over the past few weeks, security experts say.Storm kicked off its holiday spam-and-malware campaign on the day before Christmas, sending off a flurry of e-mail that invited victims to visit a&#160;Christmas-themed strip show&#160;on Web sites such as Merrychristmasdude.com. Victims who downloaded the strip show found their PCs attacked by malicious software.This site, and about 14 other Storm-related domains, was registered using a Russian domain name registrar called Nic.ru, where staff was largely unavailable during the holidays, according to Richard Cox, the chief information officer with the Spamhaus anti-spam effort.&quot;The trouble was they were quite simply out to Christmas lunch,&quot; Cox said. &quot;And they didn&#39;t get back until Wednesday.&quot;Spamhaus representatives tried to contact the registrar on Dec. 26, but they soon discovered that the company was essentially shut down. Four days later they received an e-mail from a Nic.ru employee saying that they would have to wait until staff returned to work in January before anything could be done, Cox said.Storm&#39;s creators took advantage of another common problem in the domain name registration system. They targeted a registrar that did not have an established policy for taking down malicious domains, so that gave the criminals a little more time to run their scam, Cox said.By Wednesday of this week, Nic.ru had removed the Storm-related domains from its database, knocking the criminal network&#39;s Web sites offline.But now security experts say that Storm has more than doubled in size, adding about 25,000 PCs to a network that had been 20,000 strong.Storm&#39;s creators also changed the configuration of their malware, making it harder for security software to detect it, and this helped inflate the number of infections, Cox said.The Christmas campaign was &quot;pretty effective at growing the botnet,&quot; said Jose Nazario, senior security engineer at Arbor Networks. &quot;The contributing factors there were clearly the successful timing, tied to a major Western holiday, coupled with tweaks to the malware to avoid antivirus detection.&quot;Storm Worm has been attacking computer users since January 2007, when it began tricking victims into downloading malicious software, claiming that it was a video of violent storms that had been ravaging Europe.Since then it has been one of the most virulent sources of malware, although it has shrunk in size as detection methods have improved. Recently the network appears to have begun renting out its infected PCs to phishers, according to some researchers.&quot;Storm is an insidious pest. We&#39;ve learned essentially how to manage it,&quot; said Nazario. But, he added, the success of this Christmas campaign proves that the network can still be a serious threat. &quot;They&#39;re great marketers,&quot; he said.&#160;
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Spam messages are increasingly plaguing e-mail inboxes, but more Americans are accepting them as a fact of life, a new study finds.
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A year after a sweeping federal antispam law went into effect, there is more junk e-mail on the Internet than ever.
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Just when experts thought the spam tide was receding, it did what tides will do. The problem's worse than ever, and image-based attacks using artificial intelligence are to blame.
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By Dan Heckel, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.  Feb. 26--The e-mails I get on my office computer break down like this: 50 percent are ones I need to read and 49.99999 percent of them are spam I don't need.
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America OnlineÂ has declared 2004 a "banner year" in its fight against unsolicited commercial e-mail messages, most commonly referred to as spam.
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Spam deluge eclipses virus email threat The number of viruses hitting Irish inboxes has fallen but spam continues to rise, according to figures from IE Internet.â¦