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  • The spam that is hardest to block is often the most damaging

    This blog post was put together in collaboration with VB test engineers Adrian Luca and Ionuţ Răileanu. In a talk I gave at IRISSCON last year (the video of which you will find at the bottom of this post), I discussed how spam is a problem that has almost been solved (and certainly has been well…

  • Mostly blocked, but still good enough: Necurs sending pump-and-dump spam

    Over the past few days, the Necurs spam botnet has increased its activity, sending large amounts of pump-and-dump spam, in which a cheap stock is pushed with the aim of making a profit for those behind the campaign. The Dynamoo blog lists examples of the various emails sent, while Cisco ‘s Talos group provides some…

  • Mostly blocked, but still good enough: Necurs sending pump-and-dump spam

    Over the past few days, the Necurs spam botnet has increased its activity, sending large amounts of pump-and-dump spam, in which a cheap stock is pushed with the aim of making a profit for those behind the campaign. The Dynamoo blog lists examples of the various emails sent, while Cisco ‘s Talos group provides some…

  • Ransomware would be much worse if it wasn’t for email security solutions

    Many experts believe that ransomware is set to become an even worse problem in 2017 than it was in 2016 — which is rather bad news, given the damage it has already done. Still, the problem could be much worse: a test of security products performed by Virus Bulletin in November/December 2016 showed that at least…

  • Ransomware would be much worse if it wasn’t for email security solutions

    Many experts believe that ransomware is set to become an even worse problem in 2017 than it was in 2016 — which is rather bad news, given the damage it has already done. Still, the problem could be much worse: a test of security products performed by Virus Bulletin in November/December 2016 showed that at least…

  • High spam catch rates continue in latest spam filter test

    US presidential candidates regularly see their emails blocked by spam filters. Yet again, there was good news for most participants in the bi-monthly VBSpam spam filters tests: spam catch rates for most products remained very high. There was good news when it came to false positives too. Solutions blocked few to no emails from the…

  • Full house in VB’s latest spam filter test

    All participating full solutions earn VBSpam certification, while little delay is observed in spam filters. There is good news for those who rely on spam filters — which means everyone who uses email — as for the first time since July 2014, all participating full anti-spam solutions achieved a VBSpam award in VB ‘s latest…

  • Catch rates bounce back in latest spam filter test

    Products defy prediction of tougher circumstances. When spam levels were recently reported to have dropped below 50% for the first time in 12 years, I wrote that it was ‘not necessarily good news for spam filters’: as spam filtering is almost entirely reactive, spam campaigns of smaller size are more likely to stay under the…

  • Latest spam filter test sees significant drop in catch rates

    Despite a drop in catch rates, 15 products earn a VBSpam award, with four earning a VBSpam+ award. Spam is notoriously volatile and thus, while we like to make the news headlines with our tests as much as anyone, we would warn against reading too much into the fact that the percentage of spam missed…

  • Praise for the unsung heroes of email

    Many decent performances in VB’s latest comparative spam filter test. A decade ago, there were optimists who thought that the spam problem would soon be eradicated. At the same time, pessimists thought that spam would quickly become such a big problem that we’d all stop using email. The bad news is that the optimists were…