Image-based spam - often in the form of stock “pump-and-dump” scams - can cause loss of productivity as well as financial damage to organizations and individuals that do not block them effectively.
Spammers have created sophisticated methods of varying their images slightly with each spam attack, making it even more difficult for most anti-spam technologies to catch this type of spam.
Commtouch® RPD™ Identifies Recurrent Patterns Even in Images
Commtouch’s patented Recurrent Pattern Detection™ technology uses advanced algorithmic processes to match recurrent patterns across similar messages, regardless of the content or language of the message, and regardless of variations in the messages. The enhanced Commtouch solution can decode images in spam, allowing the proven RPD technology to block image-based spam at the high level Commtouch achieves with other types of spam.
The biggest single action against illegal file-sharing internationally took place in Germany today as 3,500 illegal music file-sharers faced criminal prosecution for uploading large amounts of copyrighted material on peer-to-peer networks.
Investigators identified individual illegal music file-sharers who were using the eDonkey network to offer up to 8,000 copyright infringing music files on the internet.