Spam levels have finally bounced back to levels seen prior to the shutdown of notorious Web hosting provider McColo in November of last year, at least from the vantage point of Postini, Google’s e-mail security provider.Postini said its measure of the seven-day average spam volume didn’t return to pre-McColo measurements until March 23.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/04/google_spam_levels_back_to_pre.htmlSpam Is Making A Comeback, Google Finds
The volume of unwanted messages has been creeping upward at a rate of about 1.2% per day as spammers try to rebuild the infrastructure they lost at McColo.Last November, the volume of spam coming into Google’s Postini e-mail security service fell by 70% following the closure of McColo, a San Jose, Calif., Web hosting company that turned out to be more of a spam hosting company.By the middle of this month, spam had rebounded and was back to its previous level, said Adam Swidler, senior product marketing manager for Google’s message security team.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/vulnerabilities/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=216401850Spam Back to 94% of All E-Mail
Spam, that annoying but ignorable scourge of the Web, has finally recovered from the jolt it received last November, when Internet backbone providers cut off McColo Corporation, a California Web-hosting service that spammers were using to coordinate e-mail attacks.The average seven-day spam volume during the latter half of March is now at roughly the same levels as October of last year — around 94 percent of all e-mail — according to the antispam company Postini, a division of Google.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/31/spam-back-to-94-of-all-e-mail/Spam Recovers From a Knockout Blow [IDG]
The Internet is now officially as bad as ever, at least as far as spam goes.Google reported Tuesday that in the second half of March, spam returned to the levels last seen just prior to the November 2008 takedown of McColo. McColo was a hosting service based in San Jose, California, that was notorious for providing so-called “bulletproof” services to cybercriminals, who wanted to keep their servers running no matter what.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/162312/.html
http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?NewsID=113670Postini: Spam up again following McColo takedown
It has taken spammers only four months to get their botnets back up after hosting company McColo Corp. was shut down, according to statistics due to be released on Tuesday from Google’s Postini e-mail security provider.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10207483-83.html
Google Finds Spam Back to 94% of all Email
Spam levels have finally bounced back to levels seen prior to the shutdown of notorious Web hosting provider McColo in November of last year, at least from the vantage point of Postini, Google’s e-mail security provider.