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The Lifecycle of Web-based Malware

For the bad guys, it can be a costly exercise to produce new families of malware in order to maintain their criminal activity at sufficient levels. Registering new domains is much more economical for ...

Spam Linked to DDoS Attacks against Social Networking Websites

In early August, a number of very well-known social networking websites were reported to be victims of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The attacks appear to be linked with a “Joe Job” st...

Shortened-URL spam runs continue

Over the past two months, MessageLabs Intelligence has been tracking the rise of URL-shortening services appearing in spam emails. With so many of these legitimate services available on the internet, ...

Latvian ISP closure dents Cutwail botnet

Real Host, an ISP based in Riga, Latvia was alleged to be linked to command-and-control servers for infected botnet computers, as well as being linked to malicious websites, phishing websites and “rog...

August MessageLabs Intelligence web security landscape

The most common trigger for policy-based filtering applied by the MessageLabs Web Security Service for its business clients was the “Advertisements & Popups” category, down by 2.07% since July, to 58....

August MessageLabs Intelligence spam, phishing and virus rates

Spam: In August 2009, the global ratio of spam in email traffic was down by 0.9% from the previous month at 88.5% (1 in 1.13 emails). Hong Kong was the most spammed country in August although levels f...

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Welcome to the new MessageLabs Intelligence blog. For a decade the MessageLabs team has been protecting our clients against internet threats. With services across multiple communication channels – ema...

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