Jan, 2009 : Appriver Releases Spam Report and Forecast


📅 - Secure e-mail solutions provider AppRiver (http://www.appriver.com) has released its year-end spam report and threat for the for 2009. The reports highlight spam and security trends as seen in 2008, as well as key predictions for 2009.

Written by AppRiver senior security analyst Fred Touchette, the "State of Security 2008" report identifies many of the themes of the past year, noting that unsurprisingly, it was novice online users, unaware and uninformed of online threats, who were most likely to fall prey to phishing and malware schemes.

Touchette reports that the most common scams involved using current news-themed emails about events such as oil price fluctuations, or emails purporting to be from well-known entities such as McDonald's or MSNBC.com to steel victims' personal information. Other popular phishing methods included sending false messages that appeared to be from the government or trusted banks, as well as emails that prompting users to input usernames and passwords to update their account which are taken by scammers.

AppRiver notes that the take-down of shady web host McColo was the biggest news of the year, leading to a 75 percent world-wide drop in spam. Earlier this week, McAfee (http://www.mcafee.com) released the first of its new monthly series of spam reports, which also placed McColo's departure as the top story in recent spam news.

AppRiver also mentioned the shut down of a botnet responsible for an estimated $45 million in damages by Canadian authorities in Quebec earlier in the year, apprehending 17 suspects ranging in age from 17 to 26. The botnet had infected more than a million computers across more than 100 countries and was used for identity theft, other data theft, spamming and denial-of-service attacks.

Another botnet was shut down when the FTC and the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs worked together to take down an organized cybercrime ring responsible for botnetâ

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