On the spam campaign trail

LEET 2008 - 1st USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats: Botnets, Spyware, Worms, and More

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Kreibich, Christian ^a   Kanich, Chris ^b   Levchenko, Kirill ^b   Enright, Brandon ^b   Voelker, Geoffrey M ^b   Paxson, Vern ^a   Savage, Stefan ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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