Understanding the spammer behavior is a critical step in the long-lasting battle against email spams. Previous studies have focused on setting up honeypots or email sinkholes cont...
Abhinav Pathak, Y. Charlie Hu, Zhuoqing Morley Mao
Electronic mail services have become an important source of communication for millions of people all over the world. Due to this tremendous growth, there has been a significant in...
Web mail providers rely on users to “vote” to quickly and collaboratively identify spam messages. Unfortunately, spammers have begun to use bots to control large collections o...
Anirudh Ramachandran, Anirban Dasgupta, Nick Feams...
Botnets are large groups of compromised machines (bots) used by miscreants for the most illegal activities (e.g., sending spam emails, denial-of-service attacks, phishing and other...
Emanuele Passerini, Roberto Paleari, Lorenzo Marti...
Spam is increasingly accepted as a problem associated with compromised hosts or email accounts. This problem not only makes the tracking of spam sources difficult but also enables ...