Thanks to better spam filtering techniques, most of us probably don’t see too many ads for “herbal Viagra” and similar concoctions in our inboxes these days, but that doesn’t mean spam isn’t still a big business.
According to the latest Threats Report by Intel’s online security firm McAfee (PDF), the overall amount of spam went down in the last quarter of 2011.
While spam is down, though, malware, though, is still growing.
Researchers also noted that they discovered about 9,300 malicious websites per day in Q4 compared to just about 6,500 in Q3. Most of these sites were hosted in the U.S., followed by the Netherlands, Canada, South Korea and Germany.
More:
http://siliconfilter.com/good-newsbad-news-spam-is-down-malware-is-up/
And
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/22/malware_spam_trends_mcafee/
