Worm outbreak yields bumper crop of spam

Worm outbreak yields bumper crop of spam

14.09 04:23 - Worm outbreak yields bumper crop of spam

A 24-hour outbreak of the StormWorm in mid-August apparently was responsible for a 30 percent spike in spam two days later, according to an analysis of malicious activity on the Internet by MessageLabs. Before the outbreak of worm activity Aug. 15, the typical dot-com domain received an average of 366 pieces of spam e-mail an hour, [...]

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