Botnet Crackdowns Staunch Spam, More

The crackdowns on massive, spam-spewing botnets disrupted the global flow of spam e-mail...for about a month. That, according to a new report out from Kaspersky Lab.

"Spam in the Third Quarter of 2010" is the latest, quarterly report from Kaspersky's anti virus research labs. It finds that several coordinated take-downs of massive botnets in the second half of the year did put a dent in global spam volumes, but only temporarily.

Spam volumes dropped 1.5 percent between August and September, 2010, according to the report. That may well be due to a coordinated take down of the command and control infrastructure for the Pushdo botnet in August. Pushdo was the source of about 10 percent of the world's spam.
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However, that action did little to tip the scales on spam, which still accounted for 82.3% of mail traffic processed by Kaspersky Labs in the third quarter, 2010, down from 84.4% in the second quarter, 2010.

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