After a quiet period since the takedown of the Rostock botnet servers at the start of the year, it looks like malicious spam is back on the increase again. According to Rodel Mendrez, a security researcher with M86 Security, whilst the industry had a distinctly quiet period from October 2010 to March 2011, the figures have been on the rise again during April.


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After a quiet period since the takedown of the Rostock botnet servers at the start of the year, it looks like malicious spam is back on the increase again. According to Rodel Mendrez, a security researcher with M86 Security, whilst the industry had a distinctly quiet period from October 2010 to March 2011, the figures have been on the rise again during April.
Tue, 03 May 2011 13:41:00 GMT
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