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Increasing Visual Spam Poses Risks to Email Protection and Safety

Calendar Jul 06, 2006 • User Avatar Brittany Day
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image spam security threat spam email filters filter evasion junk images
Spam is again on the rise, led by a flood of junk images that spammers have crafted over the past few months to trick e-mail filters, according to security vendors. Called "image-based" spam, these junk images typically do not contain any text, making it harder for filters that look for known URLs or suspicious words to block them.

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