McColo Fallout Does Not Stop Spam Levels from Decreasing

Numerous reports have indicated email Spam volumes are increasing again since McColo a rouge hosting company was pulled off the Internet last month. Although there was a major drop in Spam, it seemed to have been short live as many reports are showing an up swing.

SecurityOrb.com consultants predicts, many bot-masters (an individual who is responsible for and maintains a malicious computer bots.) will take a more distributed approach in the future to prevent and defend against acts such as the McColo ISP disconnection.

McColo Shutdown Does Not Stop Spammers

In the spirit of entrepreneurship, spammers are finding new ways to send out their junk mail just weeks after the shutdown of a major web-hosting firm took many of them off the map.

According to Message Labs , a division of Symantec , after Web-hosting company McColo Corp. was shut down two weeks ago, spam levels declined by 65 percent. Now new analysis finds spam levels are returning to two-thirds of what they were before the McColo Corp.

Full article at Infoworld.

Spam drop could boost Trojan attacks

Interesting article from Infoworld.com

After rogue ISP McColo was taken offline global spam was estimated to have dropped from 50 to 80 percent, but spammers are starting to reconstitute botnets elsewhere

You can find the article here.

Interesting article from Sophos.com

Barack Obama exploited in malware spam attack

Many Americans will have woken up today with a headache - either from celebrating the victory of Barack Obama or drowning their sorrows at John McCain’s loss of the White House.

One thing is clear though - malware authors haven’t been slow reacting to the news, and President Elect Barrack Obama is already being used as a lure for infecting unsuspecting internet users.

Here is a typical piece of spam that is being seen in our spam traps around the world:










Were you to click on the link you would find yourself on a website pretending to be a news site offering information and a video of Barack Obama’s historic win. However, the site tries to fool you into installing what it claims is an update to Adobe Flash to view the video.