On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt <t...@ipinc.net> wrote:
> On 1/11/2011 12:30 PM, Lawrence @ Rogers wrote: > >> On 11/01/2011 4:47 PM, Julian Yap wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 11:42 PM, Jeff Chan <je...@surbl.org >>> <mailto:je...@surbl.org>> wrote: >>> >>> On Sunday, January 9, 2011, 12:50:12 PM, Lawrence Rogers wrote: >>> > On 09/01/2011 4:41 PM, Jari Fredriksson wrote: >>> >> On 9.1.2011 18:40, Marc Perkel wrote: >>> >>> Just wondering if anyone else is noticing this. Spam bot spam >>> is down to >>> >>> 1/4 of what it was a year ago. I had noticed my black list >>> shrinking. >>> >>> But here's some raw data from someone who tracks it. >>> >>> >>> >>> Now: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> http://www.sdsc.edu/~jeff/spam/cbc.html<http://www.sdsc.edu/%7Ejeff/spam/cbc.html> >>> <http://www.sdsc.edu/%7Ejeff/spam/cbc.html> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> A year ago: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> http://www.sdsc.edu/~jeff/spam/2010/bc-20100109.html<http://www.sdsc.edu/%7Ejeff/spam/2010/bc-20100109.html> >>> <http://www.sdsc.edu/%7Ejeff/spam/2010/bc-20100109.html> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Are we winning? >>> >>> >>> >> It has been in news also, spam has decreaced since autumn and >>> then again >>> >> in december. We just have to wait and see if this is permanent. >>> >> >>> > It has been since the shutdown of Spamit late last year >>> >>> > >>> >>> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/8090100/Spam-falls-by-a-fifth-after-Russian-operation-shut-down.html >>> >>> Rustock is spamming again: >>> >>> http://www.spamcop.net/spamgraph.shtml?spamweek >>> >>> http://cbl.abuseat.org/totalflow.html >>> >>> >>> I concur. I see a rise again this week. It really dropped from around >>> Christmas time. >>> >>> - Julian >>> >>> >>> I get criminals take Christmas off too lol >> >> > Since their victims have usually maxed out their credit cards > around that time of the year the pickings get slim. > > Actually I think the real reason is that it's not the spammers but > rather the mules that take the time off. Lots of compromised > desktop PC's out there in corporations are shut off and idling > while their users take vacation days. > > Ted > > - Lawrence >> > > I don't think I ever recall seeing such a dramatic drop. I mean spam levels were probably as low as 2007 levels. It would be interesting to run some kind of 'diff'. Maybe a large spam network was shut down temporarily and now they're back up elsewhere. - Julian
