Pharmacy image spam relents
The high-volume attack featuring pharmacy spam images in newsletter subscription templates has subsided.
We are seeing smaller volumes of spam in English, with a converse increase in the proportion of Russian spam.
Spam messages are using subject lines like these examples:
Current news topics
· "Squarebutts" Ad Bad For Kids?
· `ER' Says Goodbye After 15 Years
· Mexican Congress debates legalizing marijuana
· US to work with Switzerland on tax secrecy
· Zardari: We Underestimated Taliban Threat
Sexually suggestive
· Aguilera shows all she's got
· Jessica Simpson exposed body
· Jolie's amateur tape
· Kelly Clarkson brutally raped
Vulgar, Sensationalistic
· Drunk Rihanna showing off
· Emma Watson taped drunk
· Gorgeous diva drunk!
· Write me back, bastard
Many spam messages contain up to ten words - usually a headline, or sometimes a sentence - of news material. Such apparently pointless messages are probably Directory Harvest Attack (DHA) spam.
Examples of body content:
· Chevron profits to fall sharply
· Decision likely in US torture case in Spain
· EU to sue Britain over Internet privacy
· Obama Hosts Passover Seder Dinner
· Phil Spector Guilty Of 2nd Degree Murder
Another numerous type contains a male potency pharmaceutical sentence, a single link to a pharmacy website, and another line or two of anti-virus information or a quotation. Links lead to websites selling pharmaceutical and herbal products.
Examples:
