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Spam levels around the world are returning to the massive numbers recorded in 2010 when overflowing email inboxes were one of the Internet's biggest problems. A report published today by Cisco's Talos team highlights the fact that since February this year, spam levels have been slowly growing from 200K messages per day, to around 450K right now. Shame on you, Necurs botnet! Cisco puts most of the blame on the Necurs botnet, which they say is responsible for most of the junk email traffic today. Even worse, this botnet that previously delivered only Russian dating and stock pump-n-dump spam, has now changed strategy and is deploying messages with malicious files attached. While Necurs took a small break in mid-June, right after the ...