security An inside look at a major spam operation

[equity78]

It was so granular that you could see which spam-sending domains were the most efficient in tricking a recipient into clicking the link in the spam email.

There was an article published a couple hours ago on TechCrunch that's worth a read, it delves into a large spam operation and how it was used to send personalized spam email. According to the article the emails were so convincing more than 100,000 people clicked through. From the article: Security researcher Bob Diachenko found the leaking data and with help from TechCrunch analyzed the … [Read more...]

 

[WatchDogue]

Thanks for the very interesting and, insightful article!

 

[dncafe]

I thought this was going to be about how this site was spammed to pump and dump 4 letter "CHIP" domains

 

[EbookLover]

I wish my spam would be more personalized. All I get is boring, generic spam.