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...
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, ...
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...
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....
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...
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...