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InternetNews May 19, 2009 Alex Goldman	Spammers Find 'Healthy' New Tactics With Acai Zombie networks and botnets are ramping up spam and using sophisticated filter penetration tactics -- to sell Acai drinks?
InternetNews March 16, 2009 Alex Goldman	Report Says Spam Arms Race Escalating The bad guys are recovering from the loss of McColo and learning how to prevent being taken down so easily again.
InternetNews July 29, 2009	Spam Learns a New Language While spam levels are at their highest levels in years, much of it is the same - just translated for different countries.
InternetNews January 26, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Spammers Working to Regain Lost Ground Businesses can expect more malware this year as the spammers recover from the McColo take-down.
InternetNews January 15, 2009 Richard Adhikari	The Web's Latest Threat: Smarter 'Zombies' Hacker-controlled PCs are outwitting security software - and are growing in number.
InternetNews July 1, 2009 David Needle	Google Spouts Scary Spam Stats Google digs deep to uncover the latest spam trends.
InternetNews September 9, 2009	IRS Spoof Latest Cutwail Spam Scam McAfee's MX Logic says new botnet spam campaign targets paranoid taxpayers at more than 90,000 messages an hour.
InternetNews October 30, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Spammers Hit MobileMe, Google Blogspots With new automated tools to help them, spammers are getting better at cracking CAPTCHA - a program that protects Web sites by generating and grading tests that humans can pass but computers cannot
InternetNews December 1, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Botnets Bouncing Back Despite McColo's takedown, observers say that major senders of spam and malware are returning - and may be stronger than ever.
InternetNews March 18, 2010 Stuart J. Johnston	What Microsoft Learned From Botnet Takedown Even software giant Microsoft had trouble corralling the Waledac malware-spreading botnight.
InternetNews March 7, 2008 Andy Patrizio	Is The Storm Worm Finally Blowing Over? A report by e-mail and content security firm Marshal claims that just six botnets are responsible for almost 90 percent of spam, but others in the spam filtering business disagree with the report's findings.
InternetNews January 26, 2011	Spam Volume Tumbles in January New report from security software vendor Symantec reveals that worldwide spam traffic fell to a two-year low in January, largely due to a sharp decline in pharmaceutical spam.
InternetNews July 8, 2009 David Needle	Short URLs, Big Trouble? Security firm MessageLabs says the bad guys are exploiting a popular resource.
PC Magazine July 12, 2006 Robert Lemos	Gangland Web Attacks How not to get whacked by the botnet mafia.
InternetNews December 12, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Web 2.0 and Cloud Tech: A Spammers' Paradise? With the proliferation of the cloud, spammers will find it becoming ever easier to ply their trade.
InternetNews February 2, 2011	Rustock, Phishing Scams Boost Spam in January A flurry of new malicious spam campaigns and the return of the Rustock botnet elevated spam activity in latter half of January.
InternetNews February 25, 2010	Microsoft Scores Win Against Waledac Botnet Microsoft obtains temporary injunction ordering shut down of 277 Internet domains suspected of orchestrating massive "Waledac" botnet, one of the nation's 10 largest.
InternetNews November 26, 2008 Stuart J. Johnston	Microsoft Named in Top 5 Spam-Friendly Hosts Non-profit that tracks global spam says the software giant's Live services let spammers run wild.
InternetNews April 27, 2009 Alex Goldman	Conficker Awakens With Scareware and Spam The new activity on the Conficker botnet shows that the criminal economy is functioning well.
InternetNews March 18, 2011	Rustock Botnet Beaten Down by Microsoft On the heels of last year's successful takedown of another giant botnet, Microsoft just shut down a bigger and more sophisticated botnet this week.
InternetNews July 30, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Trend Micro Readies Security SaaS Antivirus developer Trend Micro said it's ready to take on some big names with its new SecureCloud Software-as-a-Service security platform for businesses.
InternetNews February 12, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Botnet Operators Gearing Up for Valentine's Day Spammers try to play Cupid, with a dark twist.
InternetNews June 17, 2009 Alex Goldman	Hacked Government and Corporate PCs for Sale A new report from Finjan says that the latest criminal markets are more sophisticated than ever before.
InternetNews July 15, 2009	Spam Not So Profitable? Despite sending millions of messages each day, botnet operators and spam marketers rake in less than one might think.
InternetNews July 1, 2004 Sharon Gaudin	U.S. Sending More than Half of All Spam While the flood of spam has increased sharply during the last six months, a new survey also shows that slightly more than half of it worldwide is coming out of the U.S.
InternetNews November 20, 2009	Symantec's 'Unlucky 13' Security Trends for 2010 Hackers and malware purveyors are becoming more sophisticated, meaning computer users need to become wiser and more proactive, too.
InternetNews November 29, 2005 Roy Mark	ISPs Making Progress on Spam Internet service providers are making progress in slowing spam, according to a recent Federal Trade Commission study.
InternetNews August 10, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Stopping Spammers at The Point of Sale New research suggests going after the commerce sites listed in spam mail, but some have already been doing just that.
InternetNews January 12, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Financial E-mail Spam Skyrockets The bad guys really, really want your money.
InternetNews December 13, 2006 Brian Livingston	Has the 'SpamThru' Trojan Doubled Spam or Not? A Trojan horse named "SpamThru" that has reportedly taken over approximately 73,000 PCs.
InternetNews December 29, 2005 Roy Mark	AOL: Spam Down, Sophisticated Methods Up 'Spam mafia gangs' continue to mislead and deceive e-mail users.
InternetNews May 5, 2004 Sharon Gaudin	Record Broken: 82% of U.S. Email is Spam Outdoing most analysts' worst predictions, spam accounted for 82 percent of all U.S. email last month.
InternetNews February 27, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Spammers Return to 'Spim' to Lure Victims Once again, instant messaging is being used by malware authors and fraudulent marketers to ply their trades.
InternetNews January 22, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Downadup: The Web's Next Big Threat? Experts blame a lack of patching and an advanced design for the rise of a worm that could outpace Storm.
InternetNews November 8, 2010	Spam Surges 28 Percent in October: AppRiver Hundreds of millions of spam emails were distributed every day in October and most of them originated in the United States.
InternetNews October 10, 2007 Andy Patrizio	YouTube's Not so Friendly Spam Bringing new meaning to the term "viral video," spammers are trying to sucker people by pretending to be legitimate YouTube messages.
InternetNews March 4, 2010	Spanish Authorities Break Up Massive Botnet "Mariposa" gained access to information in more than 13 million PCs worldwide, making it one of the most destructive botnets in history, though authorities say that the operators weren't sophisticated hackers.
InternetNews April 8, 2004 Robyn Greenspan	The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, March 2004 The spam ratio only grew by 1 percentage point, but the economic damage from malware was staggering.
InternetNews July 4, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	Image-based Spam on the Rise Among the lead culprits in the spam overflow is a new take on an old technique called image-based spam.
InternetNews April 27, 2006 David Miller	Bouncebacks: The Hidden Cost of Spam A nasty side effect of spam and e-mailed viruses is costing companies an estimated $5 billion per year in IT resources, according to security services company IronPort.
InternetNews April 13, 2007 Andy Patrizio	IDC: Spam To Rocket Past Legit E-Mail This Year A new report by IDC says that spam could surpass legitimate e-mail in terms of volume this year as unsolicited e-mail continues to explode and e-mail falls out of favor as a means of communication.
InternetNews April 16, 2009 Alex Goldman	Spam's Carbon Footprint Worse Than 2.3M Cars In a new report, McAfee describes the price the planet itself pays for spam and makes a strong case for better spam filters.
InternetNews September 30, 2010	'Here You Have' Worm Takes Toll In September The new version of an old malware trick was the single largest security threat to enterprise IT departments last month.
InternetNews March 18, 2004 Colin C. Haley	ISP Gets Tough With 'Zombie' Customers Comcast pushes its broadband customers with virus-infested spam zombies to clean up their act -- or else.
InternetNews January 27, 2005 Jim Wagner	Postini: Spam Building Muscle Trends in e-mail security threats in 2004 point to more difficulties in 2005.
InternetNews March 17, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	Botnets on The Run? Security researchers have identified numerous botnets of zombies in recent days and in at least one case ended their reign of the undead.
PC Magazine August 1, 2007 Eileen Travers	The Botnet Mafia The online underworld is buying and selling control of your computer, but law enforcement is fighting back.
InternetNews July 15, 2010	Spammers Stalk Smaller States, Businesses Latest spam report from Symantec finds that large spamming syndicates send a larger percentage of malware missives to SMBs and consumers in states with smaller populations.