[nsp-sec] anomalies?

David Freedman david.freedman at uk.clara.net
Tue Dec 28 14:38:23 EST 2010


Does anybody have graphs showing what the levels were like last year at this
time? Although this looks quite low, have nothing to compare against.

Dave.



On 28/12/2010 19:19, "Gilmore, Patrick" <patrick at akamai.com> wrote:

> ----------- nsp-security Confidential --------
> 
> On Dec 28, 2010, at 12:55 PM, Joel Rosenblatt wrote:
> 
>> Didn't you get the memo?  It's an official Bad Guy Holiday :-)
>> 
>> Our spam numbers were down below 1 million .. it's a very slow day
> 
> In all seriousness, I'm seeing reports of very low spam, viruses, trojan'ed
> attachments, etc. from several places.  For instance, a couple publicly
> available graphs:
>     <http://cbl.abuseat.org/totalflow.html>
>     <http://www.spamcop.net/spamgraph.shtml?spammonth>
> 
> I have also seen multiple reports from multiple places that the Rustock botnet
> is either very slow or even completely down.
> 
> This makes some people happy.  It worries others.  Are they just taking a
> holiday?  Or are they gearing up for something worse?
> 
> Anyone have any intel?

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