Aggressive Botnet Activities Behind Spam Increase

An anonymous reader writes, "A spam-sending Trojan dubbed 'SpamThru' is responsible for a vast amount of the recent botnet activity which has significantly increased spam levels to almost three out of every four emails. The developers of SpamThru employed numerous tactics to thwart detection and enhance outreach, such as releasing new strains of the Trojan at regular intervals in order to confuse traditional anti-virus signatures detection." According to MessageLabs (PDF), another contributor to the recent spam increase is a trojan dropper called "Warezov."

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enforcement@sec.gov

[RT Alec]

Forward the message to mailto:enforcement@sec.gov. Use Thunderbird or another mail client that does not strip or mangle the original headers (like Outlook does).

The SEC will devote significant resources investigating and often prosecuting the people who are behind these scams.

Re:enforcement@sec.gov

[XSforMe]

If you are using outlook, you can use OLSpamCop to rescue the headers and report to pretty much anyone any spam (including enforcement@sec.gov). It is a free download available here: http://www.olspamcop.org/doc.shtml#install

But I seriously doubt the SEC will be interested in origin of the SPAM. More likely they will do an audit on the fraudulent symbol. It usually is much more effective than tracing the origin of the spam, and it is more likely asses will get busted and the criminals (the people who proffit from the poor schmucks buying the stock) will get sent to jail.

Nevertheless, if you want to report and spam, use spamcop so we can mitigate the damage done from the source before it pumps more shit onto the net.

Re:This needs a tag.

[dch24]

If you don't like how everything is getting tagged itsatrap, you can tag it !itsatrap, and vote against the tag. Enough !itsatrap votes, and the tag will be taken off the story.