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Truecaller also reported that in 2018 a staggering 17.7-billion spam calls were identified for its users, and that it has identified 74.1-billion spam calls overall since being launched.

This means that close to every fourth call that app users receive are spam calls.

The most prominent pattern seen was that the biggest spammers are operators across the world.

Another pattern noted was that telemarketing calls from financial services, debt collectors and insurance-related matters are also responsible for a high amount of spamming globally.

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From the virus front, Netsky-P worm, which was first seen in March, has accounted for almost a quarter of all virus incidents reported, making it the hardest hitting virus of 2004.

Meanwhile, North America, particularly the United States, continued to contribute the most to worldwide spam, with nearly 48 of all spam being sent from North American computers during 2004.

In 2004, we also saw financial motivation become the driving force behind spam and viruses.

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In response, legislators and the software community both increased attention on the problem.

As the criminals use their ingenuity to get past our safeguards, we as a community must use ours to improve technology, increase user awareness and reduce the profitability of their ventures.

In November 2004, eight months since its original discovery in March, Jaschans Netsky-P worm was still the worlds most widely reported virus.

In the past 12 months, the speed at which they use new techniques has gone from weeks and days to hours and minutes - soon it will be seconds.

This accelerated spam activity now requires constant spam operations with analysis and research at every hour of the day.

Some worms have used armies of zombie computers to launch distributed denial of service attacks against websites such as SCO, Microsoft, Kazaa, 10 Downing Street, the Pakistani government, RIAA, online betting websites, anti-virus and anti-spam companies.

In addition, phishers are recruiting mules in complex money-laundering schemes through legitimate seeming requests.

Most worrisome, however, are a new generation of phishing attacks that wait for users to visit real banking websites before surreptitiously monitoring and secretly recording the login process through Trojan horses.

Well-publicized arrests include Jaschan and the US Department of Justices Operation Web Snare in August, where more than 150 people were either arrested or convicted in connection with online computer crimes.

But we all need to remember: with proactive protection through user education, anti-spam and anti-virus technologies, as well as constant vigilance, we can mitigate the impact of these threats.

In 2005, organizations will not only need to strengthen their corporate policies to achieve this proactive protection, but also to take advantage of technology to ensure the enforcement of such policies.

All of these criminals will continue to collude and create inventive attacks.

But by working together, the security industry, the government, the business world and the public at large can all find ways to make these attacks less profitable and less impactful, thus lessening the draw for these criminals.

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