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Re: Massive increase in spam volume?
From: Niek <niek () packetstorm nu>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 16:22:50 +0200
Jay D. Dyson wrote:
On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Thamer Al-Harbash wrote: I'd say you're seeing the first wave of what appears to be a new worm. Earlier this evening I received about 20 copies of the same message (same subject, same body, different senders) which was titled, "Osama bin Laden found!" and listed a URL (http://220.95.231.54/pics/). Being naturally curious (and even more naturally paranoid), I went to the URL...but not with my browser. What I snagged was an obfuscated Javascript page which -- from what I could decipher at a glance -- was some kind of spam pitch for cheap prescription drugs. I didn't bother looking for a malicious payload after that. So what we have here could be a worm that spews spam. This sort of thing will pretty much render the idea of blackholing netblocks useless now, since unpatched Windows system are everywhere. That's my take. I look forward to hearing about what others have seen land in their inboxes.
http://www.pandasoftware.com/about/press/viewNews.aspx?noticia=4980&ver=21 Regards, Niek --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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