Email viruses creep up as spam falls in April
Malicious emails took the lead from spam as the biggest cyber threat in Australia during April as targeted attacks continued to rise.
Malicious emails took the lead from spam as the biggest cyber threat in Australia during April as targeted attacks continued to rise.
Notorious spam botnet Rustock has gone quiet and security analysts aren't sure why.
Following the dip in January by the removal of some botnet providers, spam is on the rise again in Australia, according to security experts.
Spammers are people too...apparently. They have families and want to take a vacation to spend quality time with them over the traditional holiday break just like everyone else. Or, at least that is the way that it appears if you follow the trends in spam traffic.
After a holiday hiatus, spammers have returned to ply their trade boosting bogus products, security researchers said today.
Targeted attacks via fraudulent and dangerous e-mail are on the rise, according to a Symantec report published today. These attacks are typically aimed at corporative executives, to fool them into opening malicious attachments or links so the perpetrators can take control of desktop computers.
A decade after the Love Bug virus attacked millions of computers worldwide and put the Philippines in the IT world map in a negative way, computer security experts have noticed that today's computer attacks are more malicious than the original computer security threat.
Symantec has taken a relatively hands-off approach with its integration of hosted messaging provider MessageLabs since its acquisition of the company in November 2008, according to MessageLabs' former CEO.
Symantec will pay US$695 million for MessageLabs, a security vendor that offers a hosted spam and Web traffic filtering service.