Re: SecurityFocus: Botnets Likely Behind Jump in Spam

[Kevin McAleavey <kevinmca () nsclean com>]

 Heh. Wow ... it's Captain Obvious to the rescue!  :)

 Zlob, Gromozon, the usual suspects. Free codecs and cracks seem to be the major source. We see 3-4 new spambots each 
day lately. And (gasp!) they've discovered rootkits ... amusing that this is news to some though, been going on for 
better than a year now.

At 06:21 PM 10/27/06, you wrote:
> Via SecurityFocus.
>
> [snip]
>
> A significant rise in the global volume of spam in the past two months
> has security analysts worried that bot nets are increasingly being used
> by spammers to stymie network defenses erected to curtail bulk e-mail.
>
> Estimates of the magnitude of the increase in junk e-mail vary, but
> experts agree that an uncommon surge in spam is occurring. On the low
> side, Symantec, the owner of SecurityFocus, has found that average spam
> volume has increased almost 30 percent for its 35,000 clients in the
> last two months. Others have seen much more significant jumps: Spam
> black list maintainer Total Quality Management Cubed has seen a 450
> percent increase in spam in two months, and the amount of spam filtered
> out every week by security software maker Sunbelt Software has more
> than tripled compared to six months ago.
>
> [snip]
>
> More:
> http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11420
>
> TQMcube graph:
> http://tqmcube.com/tide.php
>
> - ferg
>
>
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> Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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