More Spam and Malware Outbreaks between June – July 2011

increased by 21.5% in June and July of 2011. The surge began in late May 2011 and denotes the first continuous spam increase since the shutdown of Rustock, the world’s largest botnet.

Online casinos replaced pharmaceutical topics as the top spam topic. At the same time, India became the world’s leading spammer. Spam levels continue to remain considerably lower than before the Rustock shutdown.

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