Spam Declined, Trust-Based Malware Increased in 2010
While spam declined dramatically in 2010, social networking threats, identity theft scams and phishing campaigns increased in sophistication and complexity, according to Cisco’s Annual Review.
Spam volumes decreased dramatically even as users fell for increasingly sophisticated social-engineering scams in 2010, according to Cisco’s Annual Security Report, released Jan. 20.
2010 will be known as the “year the tide turned” for spam, Henry Stern, Cisco senior security researcher, told eWEEK. Despite increases in several developed countries, such as United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, and France, global spam volume actually dropped in 2010.
