Threatpost reports that there has been a huge spike in spam volume in the last few days, including a massive amount of malicious spam with infected attachments

Researcher at M86 Labs, who track closely the levels of spam and malicious email, said that the spike began toward the start of August and has continued an upward trend since then and the volume is now roughly twice what it was at the time of the Spamit takedown in October. Spamit was perhaps the largest affiliate program in the spam world at the time that it was disrupted. Spam levels dropped precipitously immediately following that takedown.

The volume of spam has not reached those pre-Spamit levels since then, but now M86 says that dynamic has changed radically.

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