St. Patrick’s Day is a religious holiday celebrated internationally on March 17. Traditionally, this day is celebrated with festive parades and music in Ireland, Europe, and even New York Cit
Tag: Spam
Spammers Exploit Japan’s Catastrophic State
March 14, 2011
Symantec
Only a few days ago, Japan experienced one of the worst earthquakes in its history. The earthquake registered 8.9 on the Richter scale and triggered an enormous tsunami. The heart-wrenching images
Update on Global Spam Volume
March 3, 2011
Symantec
In this blog published in January, we followed-up on the spam volume saga as the Rustock botnet returned to action on January 10. At the time, it looked like the holidays were over for spammers. Di
Spambot Tried to Play Cupid Ahead of Valentine’s Day
March 3, 2011
Symantec
Spammers often use a variety of obfuscation methods in an attempt to bypass anti-spam filters. We did some follow up analysis on a recent dating spam attack in which the spammers made use of URLs i