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Spammers And Hackers Work Hand-In-Hand

Feb 13, 2004 5:16AM PST

By Gregg Keizer Courtesy of TechWeb News

Evidence is mounting that spammers and hackers are in a symbiotic relationship, according to a message filtering firm, a partnership that may, in fact, be one of the reasons why virus and worm attacks are increasing in both number and sophistication.
According to Mark Sunner, the chief technology officer of MessageLabs, a U.K.-based spam- and virus-filtering vendor, the numbers tell the story. Spammers and virus writers are working hand in hand, he said, driven by the greed of the former and fueled by the technical skills of the latter.


"We try to trace back each spam that we intercept," Sunner said, "to look at its source. What we've found is that approximately two-thirds of all spam is coming from open proxies."

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