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L.N. Revathy

Coimbatore, Nov. 10 Enterprise gateway security company, Secure Computing Corporation, has predicted a new record for mails and spam volumes this quarter compared to the first three quarters of 2009.

The company also foresees widespread malware attacks that are financially and politically motivated, as well as Web site compromise attacks against key government and economic cyber resources.

The Corporation’s ‘Q3 Internet Threats Report and Predictions for 2009’ has revealed that daily mail volumes reached 100 billion during the holiday season of 2006 and doubled to over 200 billion messages early this year.

It has predicted a 25 per cent increase in the daily mail volumes this quarter and new records for mail and spam volumes.

The report compiled by the Corporation’s research team foresees that with the continuation of the global financial crisis, criminals would take advantage of the panic among consumers and increase their targeted phishing attacks. The findings also signalled a greater likelihood of attacks intended to exploit the stock market.

“In 2009, Web attack toolkits will add new target platforms to their arsenal of ‘supported’ attacks.

By the end of the next year, over 50 per cent of Web-borne malware will be hosted on compromised legitimate Web sites, as the going may not be easy for criminals to purchase malware hosting services from companies that once looked their way,” the report said.

Over the course of the third quarter, its TrustedSource reputation system identified more than 600 new Web sites that were deployed and tagged with malicious reputation prior to serving any malicious content.

“Among the findings, this quarter saw the emergence of new malware targeting users of popular social networking sites MySpace and Facebook, panic inducing ‘bank failure spam’ intended to capitalise on the current financial imbroglio and the rapid spread of ‘Scareware’ programmes.

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