IBM X-Force observed a massive uptick from the Necurs botnet that is focused on dating spam. It started in mid-January 2018 and will continue as Valentines Day draws near. The current campaign reached over 230 million spam messages within a matter of two weeks as the botnet spewed tens of millions of messages in two major bouts. Many of the messages indicated that the recipient had a profile on Facebook or Badoo, a dating-focused social network founded in 2006 by Russian entrepreneur Andrey Andreev.”]
Source: https://securityintelligence.com/necurs-spammers-go-all-in-to-find-a-valentines-day-victim/