RE: Massive increase in spam volume?

[Tom.Marchand () bcbsfl com]

Same here.  For the past 2 months we've been getting spam with random phrases attached.  Some of the phrases are quite 
amusing. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Budd [mailto:kbudd () 702com net] 
> Sent: Monday, 26 April 2004 2:47 p.m.
> To: Thamer Al-Harbash; incidents () securityfocus com
> Subject: Re: Massive increase in spam volume?
>
> I have seen the same thing all weekend.  Our spam filter has caught most
of
> the traffic though.  It appears to me similar to a lot of worm activity
I've
> seen in the recent months.

Well, it looked pretty normal to me :). What I did notice, though, is that
the amount of spam increased dramatically over past 2 months. I'm not sure
if spammers started using all those hordes of zombie machines which were
infected with Bagle/Netsky worms.

Also, can you check what spam are you getting? Couple of times I noticed
real attacks when our servers were flooded with NDN's as some spammers used
our domains in From: fields.

Cheers,

Bojan Zdrnja
CISSP



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