On Jan 3, 2011, at 1:04 55PM, Ken Chase wrote: > I have two independent mailservers, and two other customers that run their own > servers, all largely unrelated infrastructures and target domains, suddenly > experiencing low levels of spam. > > Total emails/day dropping from some 175,000-250,000ish to 50-75,000ish (legit > mail in the 2-5,000 per day, yes I have some high spam:legit customers...). 3 > days in a row now at least, at quick glance. > > Did someone set up them the bomb?
See http://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/01/taking-stock-of-rustock/ for a discussion of recent spam level trends. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
