Spam It, Glavmed Pharmacy Networks Exposed
Summary: A 9-gigabyte database obtained by KrebsOnSecurity from an anonymous source named "Despduck" contained three years of financial records for Glavmed, also known as SpamIt, showing more than 2,500 affiliates processed over 1.5 million orders from more than 800,000 consumers between May 2007 and June 2010. The records show Glavmed generated at least $150 million, with 8 of the top 10 SpamIt earners making more than $1 million in commissions from pharmacy sites advertised via junk email.
What's compelling: The group behind this network is alleged to include the operators of the Storm, Waledec and potentially Conficker botnets, and Glavmed remained open and paying affiliates after SpamIt.com shut down in September 2010 amid a Russian criminal investigation into Igor Gusev.
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