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RE: Massive increase in spam volume?
From: Tom.Marchand () bcbsfl com
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 10:24:01 -0400
Same here. For the past 2 months we've been getting spam with random phrases attached. Some of the phrases are quite amusing.
-----Original Message----- From: Ken Budd [mailto:kbudd () 702com net] Sent: Monday, 26 April 2004 2:47 p.m. To: Thamer Al-Harbash; incidents () securityfocus com Subject: Re: Massive increase in spam volume? I have seen the same thing all weekend. Our spam filter has caught most
of
the traffic though. It appears to me similar to a lot of worm activity
I've
seen in the recent months.
Well, it looked pretty normal to me :). What I did notice, though, is that the amount of spam increased dramatically over past 2 months. I'm not sure if spammers started using all those hordes of zombie machines which were infected with Bagle/Netsky worms. Also, can you check what spam are you getting? Couple of times I noticed real attacks when our servers were flooded with NDN's as some spammers used our domains in From: fields. Cheers, Bojan Zdrnja CISSP --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida, Inc., and its subsidiary and affiliate companies are not responsible for errors or omissions in this e-mail message. Any personal comments made in this e-mail do not reflect the views of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida, Inc. The information contained in this document may be confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. This document may contain material that is privileged or protected from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient or the individual responsible for delivering to the intended recipient, please (1) be advised that any use, dissemination, forwarding, or copying of this document IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED; and (2) notify sender immediately by telephone and destroy the document. THANK YOU. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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