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New Holiday Phishing Scams Target Inbox: MessageLabs Report
October 27, 2009 -- As the holiday season begins, many will take to the Internet to shop online and research products, however, botnets such as Cutwail, Rustock and Donbot are using upcoming holiday cheer to bolster their latest spam runs.
Latest Surge of Malware Spam Comes From the Cutwail Botnet
October 14, 2009 -- Business security services provider MessageLabs Intelligence has seen a dramatic rise in the volume of the Bredolab Trojan being sent by the Cutwail (also known as Pandex) botnet, which gives senders complete control of the target computer.
Email Phishing Could Have Greater Impact If Caution Not Taken: MessageLabs
October 9, 2009 -- In the wake of the news reports this week about the FBI's latest crackdown on phishing, which identified at least 100 suspects that allegedly hijacked many webmail accounts, users are increasingly conscious about the threat of their email account being rifled though. Other aspects of victims' online lives, however, are also impacted, according to Symantec's MessageLabs division.
Idaho Most Spammed State: MessageLabs Report
September 25, 2009 -- Business security services firm MessageLabs announced on Wednesday it has unveiled a list of the top US spammed states, with Idaho leading the rest of the nation.
Spam Still On The Skids
November 25, 2008 -- Two weeks since web hosting provider McColo - the alleged host to some of the most heinous criminals on the Internet - went offline, analytics firms across the web have found that global volume of spam is staying low.
Spam Up, Zombie Use Down Say Reports
March 7, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- According to reports, overall spam levels are on the rise despite the fact that spam originating from zombie machines is down.
Verizon Email Blocking Stirs Objections
The report said MessageLabs waited two days for its IP addresses to be whitelisted following its complaint that international users were having trouble emailing Verizon customers. The Register said it was unable to send its newsletters to Verizon subscribers as of Friday.
NISCC Identifies Email Security Flaws
September 15, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- The National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (niscc.gov.uk), the body responsible for protecting the UK's critical national infrastructure against electronic attack, issued an urgent warning to users about eight serious new security flaws affecting hundreds of email gateway products.
Phishing Sites Average 54 Hour Life
August 16, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- The Anti-Phishing Work Group (antiphishing.org) reported that the average phishing Web site is online for 54 hours, while some have been able to stay online for more than two weeks before being abandoned or shut down, according to research and analysis firm Netcraft (netcraft.com).
Phishing Impact Grows, MessageLabs Says
August 10, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- MessageLabs (messagelabs.com), a provider of managed email security services, said on Tuesday that the impact of phishing attacks is comparable and in some cases, has exceeded that of some viruses.
MyDoom Disrupts Google Search Engine
July 27, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- In an event that severely hampered the performance of Google's search engine, the Google (google.com) Web site was hit by the MyDoom virus on Monday, seriously disrupting service for several hours. Users who attempted searches during the disruption received a server error page.
Spammers Use Spyware, says MessageLabs
June 22, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Spammers are using spyware to develop increasingly sophisticated and targeted spam attacks, according to MessageLabs (messagelabs.com), a provider of managed email security services.
Spam Now Makes Up Two-Thirds of Email
May 26, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Spam continues to saturate the market with the increase in junk mail. Last month, spam made up for more than two-thirds of the 840 million emails scanned by filtering firm MessageLabs (messagelabs.com), according to UK site The Register.
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