Gulf Breeze (FL, USA) and London (UK): AppRiver today confirmed that 2013 was a record breaking year in terms of spam and malicious message levels. During the last 12 months the cloud-based email and Web security specialist has trapped 28.3 billion spam messages in its filters, a 128 percent increase over the amount seen the previous year. While spam is irritating, it is messages containing malicious attachments that can prove exceptionally damaging and AppRiver’s statistics confirm this is still a popular infection vector – having quarantined just over 479 million such messages. In tandem, it has also seen a significant upward trend of malware delivered via malicious links.
- Katie Chodosh
- InfoSecurity
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