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Tag Archives: botnet
The Many Faces of Emotet
You’ve probably heard the recent news of Microsoft’s attempt to take down the Trickbot botnet. An interesting correlation with this event (though perhaps not directly related..) is the sudden uptick of Emotet email spam shortly after the Microsoft news hit. … Continue reading
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Tagged botnet, Emotet, malware, spam, spam trends, spammer, spoof, trickbot
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Spam Analysis: Markings of an Emotet Phishing Email
On January 2020 researchers have reported that the Emotet botnet is back in action after taking a Christmas break. Following this we’ve seen an increase in spam volume. One of the main attack vectors of the Emotet botnet is email … Continue reading
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Tagged botnet, Emotet, malware, phishing, social engineering, spam
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SMTP AUTH Attacks, How Big is the Problem Really?
The duties of a Spam Auditor involves more than just spam filtering; it also covers other suspicious mail server activity. One example of suspect mail server activity is SMTP Auth attacks. Such attacks can be carried by a single attacker, … 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
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
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
NetGear Equipment? Check your networks
The recent jump in spam attacks from ISP customers worldwide has spiked again, so we decided to do a little more digging. Much of the ‘ransomware’ spam has been sent in this manner, and while most email servers should be … Continue reading
BotNets kick into high gear again worldwide
Okay, this isn’t that much of a threat as it seems, as most of it can be stopped by using simple RBL (Real Time Blacklists) that block the generic home style connections, sometimes referred to as DUL or Dynamic IP … Continue reading
Is your CPE equipment secure?
It appears that a large spam bot has taken up a new home over the last couple of days, and in this case it appears to be NOT on consumer devices, computers, or servers, but on the very structure that … Continue reading