Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Spammers Mining P2P For Addresses

Spammers seem to always find a way to target-harvest e-mail addresses. An article on Security Pipeline reports that "Spammers are mining peer-to-peer (P2P) networks for addresses, and finding it lucrative work, a security expert said Tuesday. According to Eran Reshef, the chief executive and co-founder of Blue Security, sophisticated and smart spammers are harvesting e-mail addresses from systems linked to P2P networks via such software as eDonkey 2000 and Gnutella."

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