Spammers tune their game to stay ahead of filters and law enforcement

When Microsoft slayed the notorious botnet Rustock, which had been sending as much as 40 percent of all spam worldwide, in March 2011, it forced the volume of spam into a decline from which it has never fully recovered.

But while spammers lost a major weapon in their arsenal with the Rustock seizure, they have proven adept at changing their tactics. In the last few years, security experts say, spammers have embraced more sophisticated means of tricking users into following links. They have also followed users from email onto social networks.

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