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Spam-market Runet eyes Kaspersky Labs

Kaspersky Labs draws the attention of users to spam Runet market. Over the years the Russian spam business, a fairly steady market for spam services. Currently, spam lists are not the poor student programmers, a well-organized company with established methods of work, professional marketing and design.

The current share spamovyh the letters in the mail traffic Runet rarely falls below 85%, and most of these letters sent to it by Russian spammers, including the zombie computers, which in many countries. Over time, the activity of Russian spammers is growing – if two years ago, the share of Russian letters in spam Runet was 60%, now it exceeds 70%. Russian spammers are not only in Russia but also to other countries. Their botseti vast and scattered all over the world. One of the noticeable differences between the Russian spammers from overseas is that they fear leaving their contacts – addresses and phone numbers.

Results of Representatives spam companies indicate that many large firms engaged in spam, there are about 5 years. In addition to mailings, and they offer other services – the so-called abuzoustoychivye (bulletproof) hosting spam on ICQ. About a third of spammers spamming via botnetov. Maximum declared spammers speed distribution is 6 thousand letters per second.

Indirectly, the possibility of Russian spammers can be measured by monitoring the development of a case of spam. Thus, the cost to Russian businesses interested in spam “replicas” of elite goods, as the Russian spam respective subjects entered the top five leading themes of spam.

By the autumn of 2008, spam market in Russia as a whole was formed. However, the global financial crisis had an impact on Russian-spam business. First of all, the spammers have had to intensify its advertising services. Number of self-spam in 2009 was to grow and by May was nearly 20% of all spam. Thus, the actual percentage of registered spam spam traffic has decreased (for comparison: in 2007 the share of self-spammers is just 7.2% of total spam in RuNet). Some advertisements have become more aggressive, reflecting increased competition among the spam companies.

High percentage of self and its more aggressive nature, obviously, can be attributed to the fight spammers for clients. In a crisis, some companies-spam customers went bankrupt, or reduce the cost of advertising. On the other hand, companies that had previously been rightly thought that give advertising through spam mails are not prestigious, at the time of difficulties began to make use of the relatively cheap, but illegal and badly affect the reputation of distribution methods of advertising.

The full version of articles can be read site Spamtest .

Materials:

– Kaspersky Internet Security 2009: the new Shield of today’s threats;

– Kaspersky Anti-Virus and its competitors.