Andre Yoskowitz
19 Jul 2015 21:03
It would appear that email spam is not as lucrative a business as it used to be.
According to a new Symantec report, junk mail now accounts for 49.7 percent of all emails, the first time that figure has fallen under 50 percent since September 2003.
At its peak, in June 2009, the figure was 90.4 percent, with a shocking 5.7 trillion of the 6.3 trillion emails sent being spam.
The number has been ticking down for months, and was as high as 52.1 percent in April.
Symantec attributed the decline to the increase in legal prosecution against botnets, improved spam filters and blockers and faster reaction times by network providers.
Here is the full security report: