LOL, did you piss off anyone in the list lately? Maybe someone signed your email address up for the bigger and better spam?
Michael P. Blanchard Senior Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE Office of Information Security & Risk Management EMC ² Corporation 32 Coslin Drive Southboro, MA 01772 -----Original Message----- From: funsec-boun...@linuxbox.org [mailto:funsec-boun...@linuxbox.org] On Behalf Of Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 2:56 PM To: funsec@linuxbox.org Cc: infose...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [funsec] Growth in "enlargement" spam getting bigger Over the past few days I've been busy with Flame (and MD5) and LinkeDin (and SHA-1) (and I've also noticed more than a few people confusing the significance of the two protocols), so it was only this morning that I realized I've seen a rise, if you will, in a certain type of spam. As a matter of fact, other variants of spam seem to be stable, if not slightly down. But there has been a big jump, provided as a free trial, in this one category. It could be that the spammers are taking pity on me, noting that I need help attracting the attention of the other 50% of the population. Looking closer, all the messages appear to be built on the same outline. The subject lines (and most of the "From:" lines) all note "free," "trial," "sample," "enlargement," "BIGGER," and a certain body part. The body of the message seems to promise pornography, if you visit a certain Website. The Website names appear to be two word compounds, related to pornography, frequently mispelled (probably deliberately). The Website, regardless of domain name, is always the same. (At least now it advertises "American's Top Supplements" instead of pretending to be a Canadian pharmacy.) Oddly, this huge surge is only on one of my accounts: the others seem to be running at normal levels. This may be due to the fact that it's the account I use to post from most frequently.) ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) rsl...@vcn.bc.ca sl...@victoria.tc.ca rsl...@computercrime.org Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once. - Cyril Connolly victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm http://www.infosecbc.org/links http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ http://twitter.com/rslade _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.