Infosecurity: Earlier in the week, many consumers experienced a big spike in email spam volume – messages targeting containing financial malware that’s familiar from the not-too-distant past.
AppRiver, who clocked the increase, said that “this one was quite unlike anything we’ve seen to this point.” In ablog, the company explained that its data center processed 10 to 12 times the normal amount of traffic on Wednesday – mainly due to messages that its analyst team discovered were designed to deliver a new Bank of America trojan.
