Unsolicited e-mail accounted for 90.4% of all messages received on corporate networks during April, an increase of 5.1% from a month earlier, according to a report released May 26 by Symantec Corp.'s MessageLabs Intelligence unit.
The monthly MessageLabs report on threat trends also found that nearly 58% of all spam can be traced to botnets.
Adam O'Donnell, a researcher at Cloudmark Inc., a provider of antispam tools, noted that in addition to using botnets, spammers in recent months have been experimenting with a new way to sneak unwanted email past corporate filters.
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The monthly MessageLabs report on threat trends also found that nearly 58% of all spam can be traced to botnets.
Adam O'Donnell, a researcher at Cloudmark Inc., a provider of antispam tools, noted that in addition to using botnets, spammers in recent months have been experimenting with a new way to sneak unwanted email past corporate filters.
More: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=339801
