In our earlier post, we reported about “shortened url links” spam. Another form of “shortened” spam has been flooding our mailbox during the last few days. These are the emails with subject “Your private photo attached” — with attached zip files. No, we don’t know what’s on those zip files. We really don’t care even [...]
Shortened hyperlinks spam on the rise
July 30, 2010 By 2 Comments
In its July 2010 MessageLabs Intelligence Report, Symantec reported that the percentage of spam containing shortened hyperlinks has increased significantly over the last year. The report said that spam containing shortened hyperlinks hit a one day peak of 18 percent, or 23.4 billion spam emails, on April 30, 2010 doubling last year’s peak levels when [...]
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