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The top 3 spots were determined by the sheer volume of messages that were tracked by our system: 3rd Place: It’s a tie between the “Lose Weight Instantly” PDFs and the flood of messages that originated from Chinese (.cn) domains. We detected over 900 different .cn domain names that were used in under a 12-hourRead more

The ISP market is a jungle: it’s every man for himself and leave the wounded behind.  Some time ago, I subscribed to a big ISP (that shall remain nameless) that was leading the market. When I subscribed, I gave my chosen username for the email address although it was included with the service I neverRead more

There were 2 major malware waves last week that caused a big impact. The first one involved the Outlook Notification virus, which some major AV providers were still unable to catch even after 12 hours in the wild. Did you install the attached file? Installing the attachment would have caused you to spam the worldRead more

Spam definitely comes in all shapes and sizes. We asked you to submit your best subject lines and after much deliberation we came up with the top ten list (and it was no easy feat!) 10) a stone for making tortillas, a mortar for grinding red pepper. 9)  cell phone glitch accidentally making millionaires 8)Read more

Since Russian wife spam is on the rise, I’ll take this occasion to tell you a little story. An old colleague (let’s call him John) answered one of those messages about 2 or 3 years ago, just to see how things would go. The girl replied very quickly, and they soon began chatting about almostRead more