Trojans in emails originating allegedly from social networking sites reported

An increase in the volume of spam relating to the Bredolab Trojan was highlighted in the the October 2009 report by MessageLabs Intelligence. Bredolab is a Trojan that arrives in the form of a zip attachment to an email and is designed to give the sender complete control of the target computer. The most frequently [...]

Image spams push levels to nineteen month high

Spam levels  //Credit: MessageLabs

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 [...]