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German companies pestered by spam are finding that they increasingly have to look within their own country to find those responsible.



Eleven email Security Report for April 2010, published Monday, Brazil and Germany itself accounted Germany sources of spam, following by the USA, which was the top source of spam in January and has now dropped to third place with 14 percent of spam.



The report notes that emailbased malware was spread predominantly in short waves in February and March, mostly during the first five days of ugg boots uk each month. Eventrelated spam was clearly on the rise in February and March, with seasonal events like Valentine Day and St. Patrick day, and current events like the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, as well as the introduction of the iPad. And despite a slight decline of 12.6 percent as a result of the shutdown of three major botnets, spam continues to account for 96.2 percent of the entire email traffic in March.



Casino spam dropped to almost nothing as a result of the botnet shutdowns. Instead, several pharmaceutical spam campaigns dominated the scene, accounting real ugg boots for 66 percent of all spam in March. A Canadian pharmacy spam, seen in the second half of 2009, experienced a comeback, with a share of 13.64 percent of the total spam volume, taking the top spot in spam mailings, followed by two new campaigns for erectile dysfunction drugs.



In terms of phishing attacks, banks accounted for phishing, in addition to Facebook and other social networks. One campaign, for instance, targeted an internationally operating British bank, requesting targets to enter personal data such as their account number and PIN, along with links to specially prepared Internet pages parked in the domain of a penetrated German sports club that would easily pass all reputationbased web filters.