I’ve written about these incredibly irritating image stock spams (opens in new tab) before.
Today, Adam Thomas in spyware research came across a rootkit being used to send a massive amount of these stock spams.
Using rootkits to send spam
Alex is a technology CEO, with leadership, operating partner, investor, and board member roles at security firms including AutoLoop, Borland, Quarterdeck (now Symantec and Cisco WebEx), GFI/TeamViewer, Sunbelt Software (now ThreatTrack Security), BlueStripe Software, StopBadware, Knowbe4, Malwarebytes, and Runaware Holding AB. When CEO of Sunbelt he ran a security blog, and he still writes on security.