CCS'08 paper on measuring spam conversion rates

At this week's CCS conference we presented a measurement study of spam conversion rates, based on infiltration of a real-world botnet responsible for billions of spams: the Storm botnet.

• C. Kanich, C. Kreibich, K. Levchenko, B. Enright, G. Voelker, V. Paxson, S. Savage. Spamalytics: An Empirical Analysis of Spam Marketing Conversion. 15th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security 2008, Alexandria, VA, USA. [HTML, PDF, BibTeX]

This is joint work with UCSD as part of our CCIED effort.