Malicious Spam Jumps To 3B Messages Per Day

Trailrunner7 writes "Last year saw a monstrous increase in the volume of malicious spam, according to a new report (PDF). In the second half of 2009, the number of spam messages sent per day skyrocketed from 600 million to three billion, according to new research. For some time now, spam has been accounting for 90 or more percent of all email messages. But the volume of spam had been relatively steady in the last couple of years. Now, the emergence of several large-scale botnets, including Zeus and Koobface, has led to an enormous spike in the volume of spam."

Comments

Enough about malicious spam

[Anonymous Coward]

What about delicious spam?

Re:Enough about malicious spam

[Tsar]

And that's just the malicious spam! It doesn't count the dozens of helpful, well-meaning, altruistic spams I get every day from good people who care about whether I have enough hair, or I'm paying too much for prescription drugs, or my wife is completely satisfied. Bless all their hearts!

Oh, did you mean del.icio.us spam? No, I didn't think so.

Re:Enough about malicious spam

[interkin3tic]

What about delicious spam?

What about it? It's slightly less fictional than unicorn bacon?

Re:Users get spammed

[ae1294]

I can't compile what you're trying to say without the ??? and Profit! directives.

Re:Want to See Spam?

[rtaylor]

How Gmail manages to work out what I want and do not want, and gets it right is either very clever or very chilling.

Google has no way to know what you want. Instead, they focus on making you want what they give you.

Seems to work well enough.

Too much thinking in hex.

[Anonymous Coward]

Am I the only one who read this headline and thought, "59 messages a day isn't so bad?"

Re:I have said this before...

[Archangel Michael]

Your post advocates a

( ) technical (X) legislative (X) market-based ( ) vigilante

I've NEVER seen all four of those checked before on a singular suggestion. SO, I will attempt to propose the PERFECT solution, which will obviously have to take into account all four options .... THIS would definitely solve the problem.

We need to pass a law, that would create an incentive for Private Companies to generate an electric shock device that would automatically send a large electrical shock to anyone OPENING SPAM (legislation to define SPAM as broadly as possible and contain SNOPES and Chain letter provisions). The Winning company's device would be awarded the ONE day's cost of SPAM (to be determined).

This is based on my basic premise .... STUPID should hurt.