David Marcus
Director, Security Research
Dave Marcus currently serves as Director of Security Research for McAfee® Labs, focusing on bringing McAfee’s ...
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Cybercriminals are taking advantage of American concerns about healthcare by flooding the Internet with spam. According to our October Spam Report, 70 percent of global spam is now “Canadian” pharmacy spam, which takes advantage of fears of swine flu and the rising costs of Medicare and pharmaceuticals.
Spammers generate more than 150 billion spam messages daily; that’s enough to send everyone in the world more than 30 emails every day (including people without computers). Nearly 19 out of every 20 emails are spam, and cybercriminals are growing more sophisticated with their attacks. No brands seem to be safe, and this month’s report analyzes how spammers are abusing the brands of Monopoly, The Hollywood Reporter, and even the Jewish organization Chabad to distribute malware.
The report can be downloaded here.
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I just don’t get purpose of spamming…. I mean why would any one read a mail from some one whose name and subject is unrecognised???????……..
So we are working hard to mantain a infrastructure which is being exploited to transport… TRASH!?
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