Spammers are increasingly sneaking their messages past e-mail filters by sending their pitches as images rather than text, spam experts say. The images fool some filters because they have no easy way ...

Spammers are nothing if not clever. Realizing that the increased sensitivity threshold of filters was thwarting their attempts, they turned to a different, more elusive, spamming method: image spam.

Image spam—e-mail solicitations that use graphical images of text—is not new. But its rising sophistication has made much of it invisible to spam filters so that it makes up one-third of all spam, ...

Up until recently, image-based spam was all-but defeated. Anti-spam filters figured out how to detect those messages by utilizing mathematical formulas and unique signatures that software used to flag ...

The spam problem goes far beyond annoying solicitations for questionable products. These days, it's a frequent vector for identity theft, ransomware and more. Photo by scanrail/stock.adobe.com The ...