Pumps Max Rustock Botnet Spam

On August 24, 2010, Symantec released its August 2010 MessageLabs Intelligence Report. The report says that spam e-mail sent from botnets reached 95% of all e-mail (at the end of July 2010) by 84% in April 2010. The report states that Rustock been the leader in spam-sending botnet, 41% in August 2010 from 32% in April 2010, but the reduction in the number of botnets under their control to one. 3 million in August 2010, 2. 5 million in April (2010). Paul Wood, senior analyst at MessageLabs Intelligence, said the total amount of spam in circulation decreased slightly compared with the previous quarter, most botnets witness the decline in the number of robots, according to news messagelab 24 August 2010. Wood added that an exemption was Rustock reduce the number of botnets, but the volume increased – almost doubled the amount of spam sent from each bot every minute leading to a 6% increase of spam every day. In addition, the botnet stopped using TLS encryption for sending spam, as faster connections. When you turn off TLS encryption, botnets can send large amounts of spam in this case, a total of 192 spam messages per minute instead of the 96th Rustock addition Cutwail Grum and botnets are responsible for the sixth 99% and 16. 36% of total spam, respectively. The report states that the first discovered in 2007, sending Cutwail the maximum number of malicious programs than any other network of bots, usually in the form of a ZIP attachment. The researchers said that the global share of spam e-mail was 92nd 2% (one of the first 08 post). About 18% of spam comes from botnets yet-to-be-classified. Phishing activity increased from 0. 1% to 1 363rd An e-mail. Wood said they had experienced a marked improvement in the activity of the usual suspects botnet. In several cases it may be more recent incarnations of existing botnets have been updated and new botnets also marks start to appear, according to reports messagelab August 24, 2010.