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Tag Archives: spam
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
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
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
Weird Science
While I always loved that show, like any teen geek growing up, I mean what teen age male would not like to build a perfect g/f, however today’s blog is about the abuse of .science domains. Like many of the … Continue reading
Happy New Year – ColoCrossing
To all of us in the spam protection and/or spam auditing game, want to wish everyone a happy 2017. Of course, I wish I had better news and that our jobs will be easier this year, but it looks like … Continue reading
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Tagged ColoCrossing, hosting providers, NewWave, spam, WowRack
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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