In January this year, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) issued infringement notices to the value of $110,000 to Optus Networks for allegedly sending electronic messages without accurate sender identification in contravention of the Spam Act 2003. Seven months later, the ACMA found SmartyHost guilty of breaching the Spam Act for continuing to send [...]
Mixed trends in spamming for August
September 11, 2009 By 1 Comment
Symantec reported in its August 2009 MessageLabs Intelligence Report that the spam activity levels of Cutwail, one of the largest botnets globally, reduced by 90 percent following a shutdown of an ISP in Latvia but Donbot, another large botnet, continued to use shortened URLs in its spam runs, with ten billion emails being distributed in [...]
100 known spam operations responsible for 80% of spam, world’s Top 10 worst spammers
May 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment
From time to time, we check on the Spamhaus Project on its weekly reports on the world’s ten worst spammers, spam origin by country, and ISPs. According to the Spamhaus Project, 100 known spam operations are responsible for 80% of spam received by internet users in North America and Europe. As at 8 May 2009, [...]
Image spams push levels to nineteen month high
May 8, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Spam levels reached nineteen month high as image spams continue to flood emails. This is the highlight of the MessageLabs April 2009 report released this week. The report noted that with image spams making a comeback, spam levels were 85.3% in April, an increase of 9.6% over the previous month. During April, there were also [...]
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