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Spam Data
Email Processed (last 2 days)
| Yesterday 06/18 | Today 06/19 (so far) | |
|---|---|---|
| Blocked: Spam | 371,958,217 84.44% | 256,847,725 63.66% |
| Blocked: Virus | 535,353 0.12% | 5,734,825 1.42% |
| Quarantined | 2,822,198 0.64% | 4,705,351 1.17% |
| Allowed: Tagged | 2,667,067 0.61% | 4,042,985 1.00% |
| Allowed | 62,534,611 14.20% | 132,148,088 32.75% |
| Total Received | 440,517,446 100.00% | 403,478,974 100.00% |
| Updated hourly | ||
Web Data
| Domain Visits | Domain Visits |
|---|---|
| 1. google.com 325,332,570 | 6. sophosxl.net 81,974,867 |
| 2. doubleclick.net 132,480,826 | 7. facebook.com 80,039,132 |
| 3. gstatic.com 103,511,322 | 8. youtube.com 71,159,170 |
| 4. yimg.com 86,441,463 | 9. windowsupdate.com 70,256,368 |
| 5. yahoo.com 83,787,921 | 10. dropbox.com 69,450,291 |
| Last Updated 06/19/13 05:45:01 GMT | |
Virus Data
Viruses Blocked (last 24 hours)
Response Time to New Threats
Top Blocked Virus Threats
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Threat News
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Rolling Stone Delivers Zero Access Malware via ad Network
On Wednesday, June 12, Rolling Stone Magazine’s website automatically served visitors drive-by downloads via an ad network 2013-06-14 - Barracuda Labs -
The Value of a Hacked Email Account
Just how much is your account worth?
2013-06-13 - KrebsonSecurity- Stock Spam doubles as bull market returns
Investment-related spam abounds
2013-06-05 - CNN Money- Anatomy of a Phishing Operation (pdf)
A deep dive behind the scenes
2013-06-04 - SANS- Top spam source country: Belerus
99.9% of emails from this soviet block country are spam
2013-06-03 - AppRiver- Universities attacked by cold calling hackers
Social engineering attempts to compromise desktops on the rise
2013-06-02 - DailyCougar- Cyber Criminals Using Photo-Sharing Programs to Compromise Computers
Photo links lead to malware and scam sites
2013-06-01 - FBI- How the password crackers do it
passwords are losing the battle
2013-05-30 - Ars Technica- U.S. Government Seizes LibertyReserve.com
Site was alleged the "financial hub of the cybercrime world."
2013-05-29 - Krebs- US armed forces bank accounts under cyberattack on the home front
Military bank websites phished
2013-05-28 - Barracuda Labs- Experts: Network security deteriorating, privacy a lost cause
One suggestion: 'Don't armor the sheep, hunt the wolves'
2013-05-27 - Register- New Computer Attacks Traced to Iran, Officials Say
new wave of attacks particularly target energy companies
2013-05-26 - NYT- Watch out for waterhole attacks -- hackers' latest stealth weapon
Hackers lurk on websites frequented by targeted victims
2013-05-25 - InfoWorld- Only 36% of small firms apply security patches.
FSB says business is "on it's own" when cyberattack threatens
2013-05-24 - Sophos- Fake ebay deals look just like the real thing - but aren't
Convincing deal emails appeal to bargain hunters, steal their passwords
2013-05-23 - Barracuda Labs- Apache Darkleech PDF and JavaScript attacks infect hundreds more websites
Websites served up with a side of malware redirection
2013-05-22 - V3- Microsoft tells Office users to apply those security patches, already!
CVE-2012-0158 still widely exploited after being patched for a year
2013-05-21 - V3 - Stock Spam doubles as bull market returns