Cisco: Spam is making a big-time comeback

["Dave Farber" <dave () farber net>]

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Date: Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 4:38 PM
Subject: Cisco: Spam is making a big-time comeback
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*Cisco: Spam is making a big-time comeback*

*Adware is also on the rise, Cisco’s Annual Cybersecurity Report says*

*By Tim Greene Senior Editor, Network World*

Spam is making a surprising resurgence as a threat to corporate security
and becoming a more significant carrier of attacks as varied as spear
phishing, ransomware and bots, according to Cisco’s 2017 Annual
Cybersecurity Report.

The company’s 10th such report says spam is way up. It accounts for 65% of
all corporate email among customers who opted in to let the company gather
data via telemetry in Cisco gear...

... Adware and other threats

Another growing problem is adware, whose primary purpose is to display ads
on Web pages or pop-ups to the benefit of advertisers. In the hands of
malicious actors, though, they can carry malicious payloads that change
settings in browsers and operating systems, undermine security products and
even gain full control of the host. So rather than being an annoyance,
adware is a threat. “Which means the focus is going to have to come onto
adware from the corporate side to defend whereas historically it was more
of a nuisance,” Antes says.

The report looked at adware in 130 organizations distributed across
vertical industries for a year and found that 75% had adware infections...

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http://www.networkworld.com/article/3163250/security/cisco-spam-is-making-a-big-time-comeback.html

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