1 Billion Spammers Served

“he spam email was sent by a bot running on a compromised
machine in India (122.167.68.1). The spamtrap address to which the
message was sent was originally harvested on November 4, 2007 by a
particularly nasty harvester (74.53.249.34) that is responsible for
53,022,293 other spam messages that have been received by Project
Honey Pot.

“Every time Project Honey Pot receives a message we estimate
that another 125,000 are sent to real victims. Our billionth
message represents approximately 125 trillion spam messages that
have been sent since Project Honey Pot started in 2004.

“At this milestone, we wanted to take a second to report some of
our findings. Our goal is not to rehash the same old insights but
instead to give a new picture that only looking at five years and a
billion data points can produce.”

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