BorderWare Finds New Trend: PDF Image Spam

BorderWare Technologies today announced that its real-time, multi-application reputation service, BorderWare Security Network (BSN), reported a new trend in spam in which images are embedded in PDFs.

This means that spammers are able to sidestep today’s commercial and open security solutions.

On any given day, over 30 image spam campaigns are being run, with over 50% of these being PDF based

The BSN Portal tracks domain reputation in real time and gathers data from more than 8,000 customer systems in 65 countries.

Using its real-time analysis, BSN was able to detect the increase in PDF spam even as cases of traditional image spam were dropping.

BSN, in combination with BorderWare Security Platform’s patent-pending InterceptTM Image Analysis technology and attachment scanning capabilities is able to detect and block image spam being sent via PDF.