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Is January's medical spam caused by botnets?
Remember those three spamming medical organizations PSBL saw and the spike from CSHS that SpamRankings.net found in CBL data? Digging into the underlying data, and graphing them all on the same chart,...
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Davos discovers cyber attacks
Cyber attacks made the Davos Top 5 Global Risks in Terms of Likelihood. Davos, the annual conclave of the hyper-rich and famously elected, has also discovered Severe income disparity and Water supply...
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Big U.S. Spam Spike in February 2012 SpamRankings.net
What could push the U.S. from 13 to 2 in worldwide SpamRankings.net, and way up to number one for the last week of February 2012? In the U.S. rankings by ASN, seven out of ten are new, and NOC number...
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Did the February 2012 spam surge come from one botnet?
SpamRankings.net saw AS 21788NOC AS 27229WEBHOST-ASN1 AS 46475LIMESTONENETWORKS AS 33055BCC-65-182-96-0-PHX AS 15149EZZI-101-BGP AS 13768PEER1 AS 10439CARINET AS 7796ATMLINK a huge surge in spam from...
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What other ASNs were affected by botnet Ogee in February 2012?
Previously we determined that nine ASNs that showed spam surges in the U.S. and Canadian top 10 SpamRankings.net for February 2012 were infested by the botnet Ogee and that spam came from that botnet....
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Did snowshoe spamming cause the big February spam surge?
It turns out the source of the big spam surge that rocketed eight ASNs Rank (Previous) ASN 1 (9) AS 21788 NOC 2 (-) AS 27229 WEBHOST-ASN1 3 (-) AS 46475 LIMESTONENETWORKS 4 (-) AS 33055...
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Snowshoe spamming pushed the U.S. to #1 worldwide in March 2012 SpamRankings.net
Previously unseen Brinkster's AS 33055 BCC-65-182-96-0-PHX took first place. AS 10439 CARINET leapt from #8 last month to #4 for March for the U.S., and was up to second place at the end of the month....
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Ogee pushed iWeb and Canada up SpamRankings.net in March 2012
AS 32613 IWEB-AS was far ahead of the Canadian spamming pack in the March 2012 SpamRankings.net. iWeb improved a lot towards the end of the month, but will it stay improved? AS 14366 MTNCABLE...
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Which ASNs showed most Ogee snowshoe spam in March and early April?
Snowshoe spamming begins to look like a rising tide.Peaking at the end of March 2012, the Ogee snowshoe spam winner is AS 16226 GNAXNET-AS - Global Net Access LLC. GNAXNet actually placed another...
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eCrime Summit in Prague 25-27 April 2012
These ecrime meetings are always interesting and useful. -jsq Press release of 29 March: Containing the Global Cybercrime Threat is Focus of Counter eCrime Operations Summit (CeCOS VI) in Prague, April...
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Ogee snowshoe: black swan or new strategy? SpamRankings.net
A week ago you may recall most of March's crop of Ogee spamming ASNs had subsided. Yet there were some contenders coming up from the bottom right corner of the graph. Some correspondents say snowshoe...
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Microsoft, world leader in Internet security: and spamming?
Microsoft, world leader in Internet security, will doubtless clean up its spamming act when it sees its AS 8075 is #1 for outbound spam in the U.S. for April 2012 in rankings from PSBL data, pushing...
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An ISP snowshoes ahead in spamming
Continuing the question of Ogee snowshoe: black swan or new strategy? let's look at Ogee snowshoe spam in the first week of May 2012. The two dotted lines trending down together in the middle are AS...
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Congratulations to Israel and Spain for dropping out of April World...
Israel and Spain were the only two countries to drop out of the world top 20 spammers from CBL data in April 2012. Congratulations! Not so lucky were the U.K. and Turkey, which joined the top 20....
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A few bad stones can darken an organization's SpamRankings.net
Apparently a few infested computers can push a whole hosting service into the top 10 SpamRankings.net for its country. That's bad, but on the other hand a few addresses should be easy to find and fix....
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Snowshoe took all top 7 in May U.S. CBL SpamRankings.net
Snowshoe appeared to have been the source for spam from all of the top seven spamming organizations in the May 2012 top 10 SpamRankings.net for the U.S. from CBL data. Only 3 were traditional ISPs...
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CDM snowshoes to the top of the world in May 2012 SpamRankings.net
In addition to snowshoe spam taking 7 of the top 10 U.S. SpamRankings.net for May 2012, one of the snowshoe spamming companies, CDM, outspammed every other organization in the world! CDM's AS 6428...
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Stone Internet Services' AS 39234 dropped like a rock in May 2012...
Some good news for Belgium! Stone Internet Services' AS 39234 decreased spamming by 95% in May 2012, dropping from 8,212 on May Day to 321 on 28 May. In the other direction, Brutele's AS 12392 went...
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SuperOnline dropped off May 2012 Turkey top 10 SpamRankings.net
Congratulations to Turkcell SuperOnline's AS 34104 GLOBAL 64,658 for dropping off of the top 10 spamming ASN's for Turkey in the May 2012 SpamRankings.net! It was replaced in the Turkish top 10 by...
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Canada, land of spam plateaus on SpamRankings.net
Snowshoe spam took #1 in Canada again, through AS 32613 IWEB-AS, on the May 2012 SpamRankings.net. That was the first week of a spam plateau per ASN. The next week saw a platau for AS 33139...
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