Spammers' new favorite delivery model: Your compromised email account

Spammers aren’t bothering with botnets that much, but still manage to send a lot of spam courtesy of compromised Web mail accounts, according to a report.

Commtouch Labs said in a report that email borne malware attacks have surged in the most recent quarter. In March, Microsoft led the takedown of the Rustock botnet and spam levels plunged 30 percent. Spammers still haven’t recovered from that takedown, but are changing tactics.

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