Spam and Phishing

Although the malicious programs leading November’s 2007 Email Top Twenty have changed, the data once again highlights the absence of any serious epidemics in mail traffic

For more than a year now, spammers have been trying to master new ways of evading spam filters in order to deliver spam that promotes stocks (so-called ‘stock spam’ or ‘pump-and-dump’ spam).

After blogging about Dutch language spam last week, we’ve seen more of it yesterday.

Numerous attacks in the Netherlands this past week in Dutch

Our online virus scanner’s October rankings are a bit unusual. What makes them stand out from previous months is a stability that we have not seen before.

This half-year report examines changes in malware compared with to the second half of 2006.

Spammers once again made several attempts to modernize the technology used in creating graphical attachments in spam emails (“image spam”) during the first six months of 2007

This is the first report in a series from Kaspersky Lab tracking the evolution of malicious websites and malware delivered via the web

Spammers have brought another instrument into their orchestra of tricks – MP3 audio files.

Netsky.q is once again in first place. This worm has finally achieved notoriety as the most widespread malicious program in the history of the Internet.

September’s Online Top Twenty was a little unusual in terms of the movement of the entries.

It seemed as though we had almost completely got rid of the Rays and Brontok worms

More stock (s)[p]<a>{m}!

Spammers are continuing to experiment with new ways of delivering graphics files to users. These include PDF attachments which contain spam

The spam situation is currently stable. Spam accounts for 70% – 80% of all email traffic. The monthly low was recorded on June 6 at 69.9%, and the monthly high was 78.4% on June 29