August 2009 Archives

One of the perennial problems for spammers is finding what the intelligence community refers to as 'clean skins': identities that aren't associated with known bad actors. For spammers, the problem is two-fold: they want their emails to originate from netblocks that aren't known to be spam-infested, and they want the URLs that they cite to refer to domains that aren't known as spam domains.

In a blog post, Microsoft has acknowledged that some Hotmail users' accounts are being hijacked, a problem that has been previously discussed here. The article claims that a "worm or virus" is involved.