Everyone knows that in a matter of hours, hype can turn a small event into something much larger in the minds of society. Enter the latest round of malicious spam we have seen here at Symantec—the death of the Internet.
The following spam subject lines have been seen:
Secret Plan To Kill Internet By 2012: Leaked?
PLAN TO KILL THE INTERNET BY 2012- Documented
2012: The year the Internet as we know it dies...
2012: The Year The Internet Ends
This certainly sounds devastating because many of us spend a rather large amount of our time, both as part of work and as part of life, online. Addition information on this...
The July State of Spam Reportopens with optimistic words from 2004, from one Bill Gates: “Two yearsfrom now, spam will be solved.” While we wish that we could say theoptimistic words came to fruition, the reality is that ithas continued to increase and is now accounting for 80% of all email.Over the past month spammers have shown in a variety of ways how theyare still trying to best antispam filters. Some of the spam attacksseen in June include:
- Hacked personal email account used to scam contacts
