Spam has been back to pre-McColo levels for some time and increasing.
May 2009 MessageLabs Intelligence Report (PDF)
Report Highlights
• Spam – 90.4% in May (an increase of 5.1% since April)
• Viruses – One in 317.8 emails in May contained malware (a decrease of 0.01% since April)
• Phishing – One in 279.0 emails comprised a phishing attack (an increase of 0.11% since April)
• Malicious websites – 1,149 new sites blocked per day (a decrease of 67.7% since April)
• Spammers continue to abuse reputable domains and web-based malware more likely to be found on older domains
• Geographic location determines at what time of day you receive spam
• “Russian” spam squarely rooted in Cutwail botnet
jepyakut.cn, a domain created on 2009-06-02, has been spamming my own mailbox from different locations such as an Internet Cafe in Beijing.
The hidden links revealed by hovering a mouse over them without clicking, led to directpills, aka Canadian Pharmacy.
The 10 Worst ROKSO Spammers
#1 Canadian Pharmacy
Country: United States.
A long time running pharmacy spam operation. Uses botnet spam techniques to send tens-of-millions of spams per day. Probably uses many affiliates all over the world to spam but is probably based in Eastern Europe and hosts sites on botnets and on Chines (sic)
