Bayesian poisoning in web sites?

Here’s a new one provided to me yesterday by our detection center; I had to think about it for a day or so to try to figure out what they were doing. A spam outbreak contained messages driving to the following (slightly edited by me) pornography site:

Looks pretty self-explanatory. But then, if you [...]

Real Estate Site Hosts Replica Spam

A while ago I wrote about how spammers can make use of the “email a friend” functionality of photosharing sites to send spam. In reality, any web site that allows you to email someone else can be abused to send unsolicited email. Here’s a new example, in which a message touting replica watches has been [...]