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Author Archives: MagicMail
A Brief Reminder on Sextortion Spam
The sextortion spam that is prominent today has existed for many months now, if not longer. We’ve written about it ourselves in our April post (https://spamauditor.org/2018/04/no-they-didnt-catch-you-masturbating/). However, we understand most people are not up to date with Information Security news, … Continue reading
Why You should have Better Password Policies
We do a lot of work with ISPs and Telcos and we get it.. you don’t want to make changes that might affect your customers. However, if you don’t make some simple changes to account and password policies, not only … Continue reading
Does Politics affect Spam Outbreaks
While we are predominantly interested in email spam there are other attacks that can indicate ‘bad actors’, and the networks they operate from, that are worth examining. It can be tomorrow they change tactics and start sending spam. We couldn’t … Continue reading
Large File Size Spammers Part 2: A Case Study
Not too long ago we published an article going over the general landscape of large file size spam (http://spamauditor.org/2018/02/large-file-size-spammers/). In this article we will present a case study identifying a particular hosting provider whose network has been consistently sending out … Continue reading
Posted in Informative
Tagged GDPR, hosting providers, OVH, spam, spam is big business, throwaway domains, whois
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No they didn’t catch you masturbating
A new malicious spam is making the rounds, and it might scare a few people into falling for this. This form of ‘blackmail’ spam, pretends that some how they hacked your computer or home TV and watched you through your … Continue reading
Large File Size Spammers
Normally, spammers tend to rely on very small spam messages because their goal is to get as many spam messages out as cheaply as possible. They also save on bandwidth costs this way. But with more and more hosting companies … Continue reading
Tis the Season for Parking Tickets
It looks like Canadians need to watch out for fake parking ticket spam this Christmas season. We have gotten reports that once again, (see http://spamauditor.org/2017/05/parkingspeeding-…geting-canadians/) spam originating from a large Russian Hosting company is targeting Canadians. For one, just look … Continue reading
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Tagged canada, parking tickets, reg.ru, russia, scam, spammers, speeding tickets
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It’s nice when Hackers make it easy..
A new bot seems to be making the rounds, but this time it is nice that this bot is easily identifiable. We’ve observed the bot perform three different behaviors so far: 1) Attempting to log in user accounts with a … Continue reading
You think Sprint would know better
Given all the ransom ware going around pretending to be an invoice from your Bank or your Service provider, you would think that a company the size of Sprint would make sure that the ‘invoices’ they send you would follow … Continue reading
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Tagged 3rd party mail service, best practices, e invoice, ransom war, sprint
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From Russia With Love
For most people with decent spam protection, you should not see these types of spam, as they are mostly from compromised Iot (Internet of Things) devices, on home style connections, and not coming from normal email servers, but it is … Continue reading