Perilocity: eHealth Ontario tops worldwide medical spammers SpamRankings.net

August 23, 2012

Joining the festival of the Festi botnet, eHealth Ontario's AS 21992 SSHA-ONE-ASN made #1 in the July 2012 worldwide medical spam SpamRankings.net from CBL data, the first Canadian organization to do that. The same ASN did make #2 back in November 2011 and #5 in June 2011.

2011 Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	2012 Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul
9	7	41	5	6	41	6	5	2	7	41	43	42	41	41	6	1

The blue dotted line indicates spam from Festi, which, as you can see, tracks pretty closely with total spam seen from AS 21992.

Is it a Festi epidemic?

-jsq

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