There's currently a large-scale denial of service underway that appears to be affecting sites like ftc.gov.
More information available from F-Secure:
Lyzapo DDoS attack on US and South Korean websites
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Message Labs spam traffic analysis
A pretty quick and informative look at what Message Labs is currently seeing on the spam front.
- 90% of all email was spam
- 83.2% was botnet generated
- 45% of botnet generated spam appears to be from Cutwail
- Although one of it's main distribution channels was shut down earlier this month, this botnet showed great resilience by getting right back up. Very little reprieve was seen in traffic
- Virus infected emails 1:269
- Phishing emails 1:280
That's a lot of badness floating around out there. Article Here
- 90% of all email was spam
- 83.2% was botnet generated
- 45% of botnet generated spam appears to be from Cutwail
- Although one of it's main distribution channels was shut down earlier this month, this botnet showed great resilience by getting right back up. Very little reprieve was seen in traffic
- Virus infected emails 1:269
- Phishing emails 1:280
That's a lot of badness floating around out there. Article Here
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