Monthly Archives: June 2015

Very Large BOT activates

As of about 36 hours ago, another large bot activated in order to send spam and perform dictionary attacks. And as usual, this could have been mitigated if more ISP’s blocked port 25 outbound. This BOT was substantial enough to … Continue reading

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Hosting companies and spammer signups

Some hosting companies never end up on our radar, as they have systems in place to catch customers who sign-up for IP Space and VPS’s just to start spamming, but there are others who seem to constantly have problems with … Continue reading

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Another reason why ENZU should provide proper ‘rwhois’

So who is behind this outbreak. Of course you would expect their own monitoring systems would pick this up, before it started slamming ISP’s with bulk email… 23.245.171.126 : imfw.privatejetsvcs.com 23.245.171.128 : vfilter1.privatejetsvcs.com 23.245.171.145 : delawarekidney.telecomconnecting.com 23.245.171.146 : analab.telecomconnecting.com 23.245.171.147 … Continue reading

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Why do Cel Networks leave port 25 open?

As a new trojan heads around the world attacking phones to use them to send spam, it is surprising that cel networks don’t lock down port 25 as well. Cel phones are roaming devices typically, and should use port 587 … Continue reading

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