A growing number of spammers are using mobile text messaging, blogs, instant messaging, and social-networking sites to deliver their unsolicited sales pitches, a new report has found.
Despite the increased prevalence of advanced spam-fighting tools, spam is once again on the rise, and spammers are abandoning more traditional methods of electronic communication in favor of those that permit more targeted spam blasts, according to new research by MessageLabs.
The research also indicated that spammers have begun to develop more sophisticated and malicious software to harvest e-mail addresses and even steal the identity of unsuspecting netizens.
“The increased convergence of threats across e-mail, Web, and instant messaging — combined with the increased sophistication of techniques — is an interesting new development,” said Mark Sunner, chief technology officer at MessageLabs. “A harmless looking e-mail can quickly become a Web threat.”
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I hope this teaches stupid people not to leave their phone numbers everywhere and lock down your blogs