More Cyxymu spam seen in Sophos spamtraps

Cyxymu, the Georgian blogger who has been identified as the likely intended target of the high profile denial-of-service attacks seen in the last 24 hours, appears to be popping up everywhere.

Aside from giving interviews to The Guardian and CNN, we are also seeing his name once again in our spamtraps today.

Remember that these spam messages are being seen after yesterday’s major attack on Twitter, LiveJournal, Facebook, etc.

My guess is that…

Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.

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