Gladiator Research and Security

The amount of spam on the Internet has decreased considerably during the last week.  All signs are pointing to the takedown of McColo Corp, a US-based service provider notorious for housing spam and malware providers, as the probable reason.  Multiple articles have been written debating the pros and cons of taking down an entire service provider (some are linked below), but I think we can all agree that the reduction in spam is a welcome sight.  Gladiator’s eShield service has detected a remarkable decrease in spam of over 60% recently.  The graph below indicates our spam counts for the last month: