SpamPots Project: Using Honeypots to Measure the Abuse of End-User Machines to Send Spam

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Presented at AUScert 2007 by

Cristine Hoepers

This presentation will introduce the SpamPots Project, which main objective is to collect data about the use of home computers with broadband connectivity as part of the spam infrastructure. The architecture of the project, which involves the use of low-interaction honeypots, will be presented, as well as preliminary data that have already been collected and analyzed. It will also be discussed current and future steps necessary to better analyse the data, including new datamining algoritmhs and better ways to collect and correlate data seen in different networks and countries. This project is conducted by CERT.br and sponsored by the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee.