Re: Image spam hits a new level...

[Jeff Kell <jeff-kell () utc edu>]

Brian Azzopardi wrote:
> As Nick noted, I too wonder what the spammers are targetting; I don't
> think it is to beat OCR which is trivial.
More likely to alter the 'signature' of the spam to fend off
hashing/signature identification.

This is morphing (pun intended) into malware, such as the recent
dvdaccess trojan (http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1872) that
appears to 'customize' itself to the requesting IP.

Jeff
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