Click Trajectories: End-to-End Analysis of the Spam Value Chain

By Kirill Levchenko, Andreas Pitsillidis, Neha Chachra, Brandon Enright, Márk Félegyházi, Chris Grier, Tristan Halvorson, Chris Kanich, Christian Peter Kreibich, He Liu and 5 more. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2011

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