Spammers 'Gearing Up' Botnets For Holiday Rush 30
chicksdaddy writes "Spam — there's less of it, but it's much nastier, according to the latest statistics from Google's Postini e-mail security service. According to a post on Google's Enterprise blog, the viral content of spam e-mail (both malicious links and attachments) was up 111% from the same quarter in 2009, even as spam volume overall dropped 24%. The Summertime malware push may be evidence of a push to pump up bot networks in advance of the busy holiday online shopping season, according to Google researchers."
Re:what holiday ? (Score:1, Funny)
and what is this Fall? something you do when you trip ?
or is this an "American" holiday botnet story ?
Excuse me, sir. Why do you put American in quotes? Are you implying that we are not really here, nor truly American?
Re:what holiday ? (Score:4, Funny)
or is this an "American" holiday botnet story ?
Yes, probably. Slashdot is American so it stands to reason that there would be an American bias.
American Thanksgiving is next month and it's about as big as Christmas down there. After that, you have Black Friday [wikipedia.org]. A Wal-Mart employee got trampled by frenzied deal-seekers on Black Friday in 2008 so I think it's safe to count it as part of the holiday rush. After that, Christmas is only a hop, skip and a jump away. Soon people will be filling the malls looking for cheap crap to put under their trees. Sears has already started mailing their catalogs so I'm not surprised spammers are already ramping things up too. Nothing says "merry Christmas" like v1agra, I guess.
All I want... (Score:4, Funny)
All I want for Christmas
is my own bot net
my own bot net
see my own bot net.