In the past couple of days, Symantec has observed a spike of email attacks that are designed to distribute malicious threats. All of the observed samples are spoofed to appear as if they are legiti
Category: rustock
Rustock Takedown’s Effect on Global Spam Volume
March 21, 2011
Symantec
When Brian Krebs posted a report about Rustock botnet takedown, Symantec observed a decline in overall spam traffic. Symantec.cloud posted a blog about this, and the Wall Street Journal is now repo