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Rise of .pw URLs in Spam Messages

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Apr

2013

Symantec has observed an increase in spam messages containing .pw top-level domain (TLD) URLs. While it was originally a country code top-level domain for Palau, it is now available to the general public through Directi, who branded it as “Professional Web”. Figure 1. .pw TLD URL spam message increase Looking back at the last 90 days, .pw […]

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Rise of .in URLs in Spam

15

May

2012

Symantec has observed an increase in spam messages containing URLs using the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for India. This chart shows percentage of spam containing .in URLs: While there were few daily spikes last year, clearly there has been more activity in the last two months. Looking back at last year, the ccTLD for […]

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Increase in Hit & Run Spam

21

Mar

2012

During the past two weeks, Symantec has observed an increase in hit & run spam activities (also known as snowshoe spam) in its Global Intelligence Network. Hit & run spam messages have the following characteristics: Usually originates from IP ranges with neutral reputation Uses a large IP range to dilute the amount of spam sent […]

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