Red Condor boasts new anti-spam technology

Red Condor, an internet and email security company, has announced that new technology they developed will bring down the "fast-flux" e-mail spam. The new security card-in-the-sleeve, called Zombie Harvester Robot, was presented on October 3rd, is supposed to watch for changes and patterns that indicate potential threats in URLs embedded inside e-mails.

With spammers regularly trying to avoid spam filters by changing the URL in their email messages, Red Condor states that a new defensive technique is required to battle spammer tricks. The typical way for cybercriminals to avoid detection is to plant a worm inside a victim PC and use it as a proxy for email spam. The newly developed Zombie Harvester Robot will use similar tactics to battle spammers on their own turf by using up-to-the-minute security threat information from its worldwide sensor network and then applying defensive measures in real time to protect the potential spam victims.

Red Condor also presents evidence of Zombie Harvester Robot at work: more that a billion spam messages blocked every single day. Although that accounts only for 1-3% of overall spam, such advances in anti-spam defense might signal the long-waited arrival of an effective measure to counter the evergrowing numbers of spam letters.

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