Good News: A Sustained Drop In Spam Levels

Orome1 writes "Industry and government efforts have dealt a significant blow to spam, according to a Commtouch report that is compiled based on an analysis of more than 10 billion transactions handled on a daily basis. The sustained decrease in spam over the last year can be attributed to many factors, including: Botnet takedowns, increased prosecution of spammers and the source industries such as fake pharmaceuticals and replicas. However, spam is still four times the level of legitimate email and cybercriminals are increasing their revenues from other avenues, such as banking fraud malware."

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At least they are reasonably honest with credit

[damn_registrars]

As the summary states:

The sustained decrease in spam over the last year can be attributed to many factors, including: Botnet takedowns, increased prosecution of spammers and the source industries such as fake pharmaceuticals and replicas

Notice that filters are not included in that list, as they do not make a meaningful change in total spam volume. While some people are hiding behind their filters, others are actually taking action to stop spam. As I have said before, filters will never, ever, win the war on spam.