The largest stock spam attack in 2014, and also the most successful, according to Bitdefender Labs. The spam wave comes from botnets with thousands of zombie computers distributed in countries such as the US, Spain, India, Australia, France, Germany, the UK, Romania and South Korea. The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority also warned that stock spam messages are proliferating this year, representing the inbox equivalent of a boiler room sales operation.”]