Apparently, spammers are following the current megatrend and moving to the cloud. I am used to getting tons of spam comments on this blog — but one of them catched my eye:
Author : ctgPi (IP: 79.125.XXX.XXX , ec2-79-125-XXX-XXX.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com)
The IP address belongs to Amazon’s EC2 (elastic compute cloud) service – the textbook example of a cloud service (more specifically, a PaaS or Platform as a Service) — so it seems that the spammer uses Amazon’s cloud to send out spam comments to blogs. (more…)