Spammers using geek speak to bypass filters, trick IT pros
Spammers are taking a new approach in the language they use in mass emailings: writing like IT professionals themselves.
Researchers have seen a hike in recent months in the amount of spam containing "IT speak," according to email security firm MessageLabs.
The company has collected spam emails containing subject lines referring to support desk ticket numbers and popular technology buzzwords, such as .net, cpan, and xss that attempt to get system administrators to open potentially deadly emails.
Spammers may use similar techniques in the future to thwart the filters of accounting firms and other parts of the financial sector.
Matt Sergeant, senior anti-spam technologist at MessageLabs, told SCMagazine.com today that this concept could spread to other sectors depending on the success they're having now.
