By RIVA RICHMOND, New York Times
A holiday hiatus for spammers appears to be over. Rustock, a network of malware-infected personal computers that is the world’s No. 1 source of spam and is believed to be controlled by Russian cybercriminals, stopped sending spam on Christmas Eve, causing global spam levels to plummet. No one really knew why. But Rustock has now said Happy New Year to the world. On Sunday, at about 7 p.m. Eastern standard time, the botnet was back at work dispatching spam, mostly of the pharmaceutical variety and plugging an outfit called Pharmacy Express, according to the security firm Symantec.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/12/spam-is-back/
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