Monday, October 9. 2006
Columbus Day SPAM Attack
The last few months, the mailware writers have been taking advantage of the fact that even security people like to take their weekends off to blast the Internet with their latest and greatest creations.
Apparently, the pump-and-dump SPAMmers have decided to use the same tactic, and thought maybe the Columbus day weekend might be a good time to do it.
At work, my usual volume of SPAM on a Sunday is about 90,000 emails. Here's my current graph. That huge spike at the end - 204,000 email on Sunday.
Where are they coming from? Delivery failures. We've become the spoofed From: line for some spammer out there. And we're not the only ones.
It's getting nasty out there.
Apparently, the pump-and-dump SPAMmers have decided to use the same tactic, and thought maybe the Columbus day weekend might be a good time to do it.At work, my usual volume of SPAM on a Sunday is about 90,000 emails. Here's my current graph. That huge spike at the end - 204,000 email on Sunday.
Where are they coming from? Delivery failures. We've become the spoofed From: line for some spammer out there. And we're not the only ones.
It's getting nasty out there.
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