Q2 2008 Email Threats Trend Report

“On average, nearly 10 million zombie computers actively sent spam and email-based malware everyday during Q2. The vast majority of those IP addresses are dynamic, meaning they are taken in and out of use at will by the botmaster controlling the network. Dynamic control of large numbers of zombie IPs is what allows the continuous delivery of malicious materials across the Internet. By the time traditional security solutions identify and block the source of a new threat, the botmaster easily deactivates them and switches to another set of sender IPs under his control.”

Read the full co-brandend MX Lab – Commtouch® – 2008 Q2 Email Threats Trend Report at http://www.mxlab.eu/en/news/reports.html.