You’ve almost certainly come across the terms Dark Matter, Dark Energy,
or even Dark Fibre.
But we’ve recently come across a suitably similar form
of spam. Spam that is there but you can’t normally see it! - Dark Spam.
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Get the bait out - it’s phishing season

At the start of July we saw an to end to World Cup and all that football fever, along with this, spam levelled off, and virus activity was low. With the launch of the Internet Defence Phishery this month, the quantity of phishing attacks is far easier to see than ever before. In the late July sun, the smell from the phishery, as well the temperature, was rising as a vast amount of new phishes came into the phishery to be processed [ed: I think she means that there was a massive volume of phishing emails sent out, targetting a number of instutitions in the last weekend of July].

The US is back at numero uno for spam, viruses and phishing emails. Bleh.

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World Cup Crazy

With any worldwide event, security precautions increase, and people are on high alert, as you would expect an increase in malicious activity. In Germany, security professionals held their breath, especially the World Cup network operators as the football matches began.
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Bank Holidays?

May has definitely not been as drab and dreary as showery April. Although the overall view of spam, ham and viruses has not altered extremely, it is the breakdown of each of these which is interesting; the amount of ham seen has decreased from last month by ~3%, with spam gaining this percentage. Phishing activity is continually increasing, but we haven’t seen anything of much excitement. It’s also been a while since we have seen a new virus in the wild - but with May we have seen a change - a new virus and its several variants were detected between the middle and end of the month.
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April Showers

April, usually a dull, grey month, in between Winter and early Summer. And the Spam report for this month, is much like the weather. After the excitment of the Winter’s WMF exploit, and the corresponding upsurge in spam, unsolicited email has been coming along in a steady deluge. Read on for an overview of the key trends and highlights in email attacks and spam sending for the month of April.
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….following up from last weeks article, IKMA has declined in market value - it now as at 0.125. which is down by 61%!!
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In the last week, we have been seeing a lot of ’stocks’ spam particularly for the symbol IKMA.
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Introduction

Welcome to the March edition of the InternetDefence Ham, Spam & Virus Report.
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Introduction

Welcome to the February edition of the InternetDefence Ham, Spam & Virus Report.
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What is the SBL?

The Spam IP Blacklist (SBL) is a realtime database provided by the Internet Defence team. This is an advisory database which includes a list of all IP addresses that have sent email identified as spam. This identification is an automated process - no user preferences are involved in making the decision about whether an email is spam not.

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