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The volume of e-mail spam is declining — down one-third from last summer’s level — while sophisticated phishing attacks and exploit kits are coming in greater numbers. The company’s researchers produce the threat report twice a year. In M86’s newest report, the company charted spam volume from January 2008 to December 2010.
In a spam affiliate program, spammers are paid to inundate hapless Internet browsers with bogus websites and links. M86 measures spam volume by a numeric index. When the spam volume doubled, it reached 2,000. Exploit kits are packs of malicious programs that owners use to launch automated, malware-spreading attacks.
Anstis predicts that malware as a service is heading toward arrangements where criminals sign up for a service, like an exploit kit running in the cloud. The report also mentions combined attacks employing two types of code, like Java and Adobe Flash Actionscript, to bypass security measures.
The volume of e-mail spam is declining — down one-third from last summer’s level — while sophisticated phishing attacks and exploit kits are coming in greater numbers. The company’s researchers produce the threat report twice a year. If you look back at the spam volume index, it’s a real roller coaster,” said Bradley Anstis, M86’s vice president of technical strategy, about the report’s data.
In M86’s newest report, the company charted spam volume from January 2008 to December 2010. In a spam affiliate program, spammers are paid to inundate hapless Internet browsers with bogus websites and links. M86 measures spam volume by a numeric index. When the spam volume doubled, it reached 2,000.
Social media sites are a growing platform for cyber-criminals to lure users to take things like false surveys and obtain information. Exploit kits are packs of malicious programs that owners use to launch automated, malware-spreading attacks.
Anstis predicts that malware as a service is heading toward arrangements where criminals sign up for a service, like an exploit kit running in the cloud. Security software providers, M86 and McAfee, have warned companies not to be complacent in the face of increased mobile malware, as two new reports reveal mobile malware is on the rise while spam emails are declining.
Anstis predicts that malware as a service is heading toward arrangements where criminals sign up for a service, like an exploit kit running in the cloud. The report also mentions combined attacks employing two types of code, like Java and Adobe Flash Actionscript, to bypass security measures.
The volume of e-mail spam is declining — down one-third from last summer’s level — while sophisticated phishing attacks and exploit kits are coming in greater numbers. The company’s researchers produce the threat report twice a year. If you look back at the spam volume index, it’s a real roller coaster,” said Bradley Anstis, M86’s vice president of technical strategy, about the report’s data.
In M86’s newest report, the company charted spam volume from January 2008 to December 2010. In a spam affiliate program, spammers are paid to inundate hapless Internet browsers with bogus websites and links. M86 measures spam volume by a numeric index. When the spam volume doubled, it reached 2,000.
Social media sites are a growing platform for cyber-criminals to lure users to take things like false surveys and obtain information. Exploit kits are packs of malicious programs that owners use to launch automated, malware-spreading attacks.
Anstis predicts that malware as a service is heading toward arrangements where criminals sign up for a service, like an exploit kit running in the cloud. Security software providers, M86 and McAfee, have warned companies not to be complacent in the face of increased mobile malware, as two new reports reveal mobile malware is on the rise while spam emails are declining.
“Spam hitting its lowest levels can be attributed to a transition period with several botnets growing dormant during a time of year when spam volumes are usually on an upward path,” the McAfee report read. The report said that while there was a decline in phishing emails, probably as a result of users becoming more aware of fake emails claiming to be from banking institutions, there was a new threat of websites offering a 'multiple choice' from a selection of banks in phishing messages.
“People are taken to a page and they choose a bank and it is in effect multiple choice phishing. The report said that UK banking customers had been affected by this technique. Two examples it pointed to are the scanning module in the Siberia Exploit kit and Neosploit's new Malware-as-a-Service offering.
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