Kaspersky Lab senior spam analyst Maria Namestnikova looks closely at pharmaceutical spam operations. She discusses how spammers are using affiliate programs and rebuilt botnets to recover from last year’s crackdown. The end of 2010 was a rather bad time to be a spammer, thanks to the industry-wide effort that included botnet takedowns and legal cases, we saw a dramatic shift in the way spammers used unsolicited e-mail to make money. In this Lab Matters webcast, we look at the pharmaceutical spam operation.”]
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