Posted on Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
Spammers find new ways to flood corporate networks
Computer World
Unsolicited e-mail accounted for 90.4% of all messages received on corporate networks during April, an increase of 5.1% from a month earlier, according to a report released May 26 by Symantec Corp.’s MessageLabs Intelligence unit. The monthly MessageLabs report on threat trends also found that nearly 58% of all spam can be traced to botnets. Adam O’Donnell, a researcher at Cloudmark Inc., a provider of antispam tools, noted that in addition to using botnets, spammers in recent months have been experimenting with a new way to sneak unwanted e mail past corporate filters.
