Capp
July 23rd, 2007, 01:17 PM
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Foiled by increasingly accurate corporate spam filters, spammers have dumped pictures for PDFs in their bulk emailings, according to the latest data from security firms.
Image spam, which at the beginning of the year accounted for nearly 60 percent of all junk email, has plummeted and now accounts for only about 15 per cent of spam.
Taking its place, the number of junk email messages using an attachment in the Portable Document Format (PDF) has steadily climbed since mid-June, accounting for as much as a third of spam.
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Article (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/23/spammers_switch_to_pdf/)
Foiled by increasingly accurate corporate spam filters, spammers have dumped pictures for PDFs in their bulk emailings, according to the latest data from security firms.
Image spam, which at the beginning of the year accounted for nearly 60 percent of all junk email, has plummeted and now accounts for only about 15 per cent of spam.
Taking its place, the number of junk email messages using an attachment in the Portable Document Format (PDF) has steadily climbed since mid-June, accounting for as much as a third of spam.
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Article (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/23/spammers_switch_to_pdf/)