In the second quarter of 2008, the percentage of spam in mail traffic averaged 82.5%. By comparison, in the first quarter spam accounted for 88% of all emails. A high of 93.9% was recorded on April 9, with a low of 64.2% on May 3. Read Full Article
Fraudulent spam
Kaspersky Lab experts refer to spam as anonymous unsolicited mass mailings. Most of these mailings are adverts, although several categories of spam serve other purposes. “Non-advertising” spam includes one of the most dangerous types of spam – fraudulent messages. Read Full Article
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Anyone who’s been reading tech news lately may have noticed items about a Kris Kaspersky Read Full Article
Rustock and All That
In December 2006, rumors began to circulate among rootkit researchers (both blackhat and whitehat) that someone had created and released an ‘absolutely undetectable’ rootkit, Rustock.С, which could not be detected on computers where it was active by any of the existing antivirus or anti-rootkit solutions Read Full Article
Bluelisting – pros and cons
I’m sure most of us are familiar with whitelisting. It’s the idea of filtering applications (or e-mails, depending on the context it’s used in) and allowing those that are explicitly listed. Read Full Article
Malware Miscellany, June 2008
Greediest Trojan targeting payment systems, stealthiest malicious program, most common Trojan family most common malicious program in email traffic and others. Read Full Article
Spam Report: June 2008
Last month the Kaspersky Lab analysts forecasted a seasonal decline in spam – the first time in the last few years Read Full Article
Virus Top 20 for June 2008
Summer vacation is in full swing, which means changes in the statistics for malicious programs in mail traffic are relatively small. Read Full Article
Online Scanner Top Twenty for June 2008
This month a total of 3 malicious programs for non-Windows platforms appeared out of nowhere.
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