http://www.spamhaus.org/news/ Spamhaus tracks the Internet's Spammers, Spam Gangs and Spam Services, provides dependable realtime anti-spam protection for Internet networks, and works with Law Enforcement to identify and pursue spammers worldwide. en-gb http://www.spamhaus.org/images/sh_logo1.jpg http://www.spamhaus.org/ 260 32 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/682/snake-oil-spamming-chiropractor-gets-cracked Long time <a href="http://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/">ROKSO</a>-listed spammer <a href="http://www.sp... 2012-05-02 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/681/spam-through-compromised-passwords-can-it-be-stopped Any account on a legitimate mail server is a valuable resource to a spammer or cybercriminal because it gives access to a server... 2012-04-30 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/680/russian-registrar-naunet-knowingly-harbours-cybercriminals In November 2011, new terms and conditions (T&C's) for registering .ru domains were put out by the Coordination Center for t... 2012-03-22 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/679/registrars-and-cybercrime-a-look-at-internet.bs Yesterday, an investigative report created and released by internet pharmacy watchdog LegitScript documents how <a href="... 2012-03-11 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/678/snmp-ddos-vector-secure-your-network-now Spamhaus has observed a newer type of distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) which has only recently become popular among c... 2011-12-23 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/676/ghost-click-dnschanger-could-isps-have-stopped-it After the November 9, 2011 successful law-enforcement dismantling of a huge cybercrime network in an operation dubbed 'Ghost Cli... 2011-11-15 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/675/targeting-rove-digital-operation-ghost-click On November 9, 2011 the FBI announced the successful dismantling of a huge cybercrime network in an operation dubbed 'Ghost Clic... 2011-11-09 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/674/whos-really-paying-cybercriminals This week sees the arrival of LondonCyber, a conference organised by the British Government's Foreign Office and reported to hav... 2011-11-01 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/673/dutch-isp-attempts-false-police-report If The Netherlands has penalties for filing false reports and wasting police time, Dutch ISP 'A2B Internet' will be looking at a... 2011-10-14 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/672/santander-gets-it-mostly-right If one admonishes for poor practice, one should encourage better practice. On Friday we wrote about an email sent by the UK t... 2011-10-03 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/671/uk-tax-office-sends-an-invitation-to-phishers Phishing. Broadly speaking, sending out emails which misdirect people to supply confidential information to miscreants. One such... 2011-09-30 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/670/spamhaus-victory-in-final-appeal-in-e360-case On the 2nd September 2011 Spamhaus was successful in its final appeal which reduced a baseless $11.7 million default judgment do... 2011-09-05 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/669/spamhaus-dbl-as-a-response-policy-zone All too frequently electronic security breaches result from some form of social engineering trick which entices a user to visit ... 2011-06-10 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/668/spamhaus-releases-ipv6-blocklists-strategy The Spamhaus Project has released a document outlining Spamhaus' strategy with respect to Spamhaus' IP blocklists and their futu... 2011-06-06 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/667/one-year-anniversary-of-the-dbl-brings-a-new-zone 5 March 2011: One year ago this week, The Spamhaus Project released a new spam-blocking advisory list for the world's internet ... 2011-03-03 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/665/wikileaks-mirror-malware-warning On Monday Spamhaus became aware that the main Wikileaks website, wikileaks.org, was redirecting web traffic to a 3rd party mirro... 2010-12-14 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/664/spamhaus-forged-again-in-malware-phish-attack Spamhaus.org has been a frequent target of forged e-mails over the years and once again we're seeing a rise in those sorts of sp... 2010-11-29 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/663/uk-threat-from-cybercrime-is-very-real When it became clear that the UK's National Security Strategy (published today) would highlight "Cybersecurity" as one... 2010-10-18 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/662/spamhaus-releases-the-spamhaus-whitelist The Spamhaus Project has released a whitelist called the Spamhaus Whitelist. Long awaited in the industry, the Spamhaus Whitelis... 2010-09-26 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/660/spamhaus-blocks-gmail-report-was-not-true. "Spamhaus Blocks Gmail" - A catchy headline which certainly got the twitterati going. However, it wasn't true. Rece... 2010-08-20 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/658/canned-spammer Leaving a wake of over 12 years of criminal spamming and trillions of sent junk emails behind him, long time ROKSO-listed spamme... 2010-03-04 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/655/approaching-100-spam-block-spamhaus-releases-the-domain-block-list 1 March 2010: The Spamhaus Project is proud to release its newest spam-blocking advisory list to the world's internet users, th... 2010-03-01 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/654/state-of-maine-ag-oks-spam-list The idea of "opt in" is central to the legitimate, non-spam use of bulk e-mail. Without "opt in" policies, a... 2010-02-03 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/653/darkmarket-loner-soon-to-have-many-new-friends Unfortunatly for Renukanth Subramaniam, the "loner with a modest lifestyle" who helped run the secretive website where... 2010-01-15 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/652/congratulations-to-cnnic-china China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) - China's own domain regulator - last week criticised Xinnet.com and some othe... 2009-12-17 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/651/comcast-guarding-users-helps-protect-all-of-us In October, Comcast Corporation, the USA's largest provider of high-speed Internet to private homes, announced the roll-out of i... 2009-12-07 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/650/two-month-snowshoe-trek-results On the two-month anniversary of our announcement of the Spamhaus CSS, we thought it's time to take a look at its effect against ... 2009-12-03 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/649/herbalking-ringleader-gets-us15-million-fine The Herbalking aftermath continues with a US federal judge ordering ringleader Lance Atkinson to pay the US Federal Trade Commis... 2009-11-30 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/647/some-good-news-from-downunder Two New Zealanders well known to Spamhaus have been fined for their roles in the biggest pharmaceutical spamming operation in th... 2009-11-20 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/646/announcing-the-spamhaus-css While filtering methods for botnet spam are now quite effective, a new breed of static-IP address spammers has evolved, and thei... 2009-10-03 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/645/impact-on-cutwail-of-3fn-shutdown There is nothing like a visual representation to show how botnet spam traffic dries up when a major eastern European run host (i... 2009-06-16 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/644/erroneous-mail-rejections-at-yahoo During the last week of May, 2009, some senders experienced mail rejected by yahoo.com which referenced Spamhaus PBL data. But w... 2009-05-30 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/643/isp-pbl-account-new-look Last month we mentioned upcoming changes to ISP's PBL Account pages. We're pleased to announce that the first phase of those imp... 2009-05-19 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/642/pbl-update-and-comparisons-april-2009 We'd like to show you what some typical broadband space looks like in terms of spam-sending bots and Policy Block List (PBL) lis... 2009-04-13 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/641/a-snowshoe-winter-our-discontent-with-can-spam Snowshoe spamming has been around for many years but during 2008 a few USA spammers honed the technique to a fine edge. It has g... 2009-02-25 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/640/another-one-bytes-the-dust Following the October 2008 shut down of the largest US based host of trojan malware, botnet command and control systems (C&C... 2008-11-17 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/639/spam-kingpins-hench-woman-pleads-guilty- A person well known to Spamhaus, Judy Devenow, one of long time spamming kingpin and convicted felon Alan Ralsky's gang, plead g... 2008-10-15 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/638/herbalking-principals-indicted-by-ftc-and-new-zealand The #1 worst spam gang on the Internet for much of 2007 and 2008, and active since at least 2005, has been indicted by the US Fe... 2008-10-14 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/637/virginia-court-oks-anonymous-spam Or "Frea Speach," as spammers write with their notoriously bad spelling while yammering about their right to send spam... 2008-09-16 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/636/cybercrimes-u.s.-home When cybercrime is mentioned it never takes long for Russia and the Ukraine to enter the picture. However, while a lot of cyberc... 2008-08-29 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/635/confirmed-opt-in-a-rose-by-any-name Closed Loop Confirmed Opt In is the full technical term for the best opt-in subscription practice around. But whether you call i... 2008-08-11 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/634/spam-malware-and-ftp-cracks There is lots of spam going around with funny subjects like "Mike Tyson to Fight Michael Jackson" or "Afghanistan... 2008-07-25 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/633/using-the-sbl-and-xbl-against-spamvertized-urls A lot of people are using our SBL and XBL lists to guard their mail infrastructure against the incoming floods of spam. While we... 2008-06-27 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/631/the-spammer-agora There's been a lot of use of the term "ecosystem" in the e-mail industry lately. It's a good description of the comple... 2008-03-16 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/630/blackhats-and-grayhats (From a discussion in a private anti-abuse industry workgroup list in November 2007 regarding the need for extensive restructuri... 2008-02-15 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/628/the-spamhaus-pbl-a-one-year-old-anti-spam-heavyweight One year ago this month, Spamhaus launched the Policy Block List, also known as the PBL. Now a year later we look back to see w... 2008-01-29 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/627/us-feds-arrest-and-book-rokso-spammer-alan-ralsky As reported by the Detroit Free Press on January 9, 2008, spammer Alan Ralsky of West Bloomfield, Michigan was brought into U.S.... 2008-01-11 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/626/spam-king-alan-ralsky-indicted The US Department of Justice went public on January 3rd with the indictment of Alan Ralsky and 10 others who helped him. <a h... 2008-01-03 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/624/the-increasing-importance-of-registrars-in-the-fight-against-spam Anyone remotely involved in the fight against spam has heard of the Storm worm. While Storm has used a variety of social enginee... 2008-01-01 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/617/rbn-as-chinese-as-caviar-borscht When the routes to the older IP address mapped to the Russian Business network began to no longer route on the internet, Spamhau... 2007-11-16 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/611/rokso-spammer-robert-soloway-arrested On May 30, 2007, one of the most persistent professional spammers, Robert Alan Soloway, was indicted by a grand jury in Seattle,... 2007-05-30 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/165/summer-spam-suits-show-some-success Microsoft Corporation has won what could be the largest award against a spammer in Europe thus far. Paul Fox, whose e-mail mess... 2006-09-08 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/161/australian-spam-act-nails-first-spammer The Australian Communications Authority (ACA) has taken action against a spammer in the first case to be brought under Australia... 2005-06-23 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/160/the-threat-from-the-net During two keynote speeches at the Infosecurity Europe conference at Olympia (London UK), Lord Harris of Haringey warned the UK ... 2005-04-27 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/156/increasing-spam-threat-from-proxy-hijackers Spam, now at 75% of all email traffic arriving at most ISPs mail servers, has come mainly from two types of source - either sent... 2005-02-03 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/155/jeremy-jaynes-gets-9-years-for-spamming [Update: The 9 year sentence was overturned on appeal, the spammer did go to prison for other crimes] Jeremy Jaynes of Ralei... 2004-11-04 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/154/follow-australia United Nations - World Summit on the Information Society International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Geneva, Switzerland The me... 2004-07-19 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/152/spammer-arrests-herald-ftc-crackdown-on-illegal-spamming For many months the Spamhaus team have been working with teams from Law Enforcement Agencies in the United States and United Kin... 2004-04-29 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/151/spamhaus-releases-exploits-block-list-xbl-to-combat-illegal-spam-relaying London, 1 January 2004 To help stop the rising tide of spam coming from illegal 3rd party exploits, the Spamhaus Project today ... 2004-01-01 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/150/united-states-set-to-legalize-spamming-on-january-1-2004 Against the advice of all anti-spam organizations, the U.S. House of Representatives has passed the CAN-SPAM Act, a bill backed ... 2003-11-22 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/13/spammers-release-virus-to-attack-spamhaus.org A new virus released by spammers on Saturday 1st November is infecting computers worldwide, and this time the purpose of the vir... 2003-11-02 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/9/the-spam-definition-and-legalization-game The word Spam means "Unsolicited Bulk Email". Unsolicited means that the Recipient has not granted verifiable permissi... 2003-05-14 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/8/spamming-is-now-a-crime-in-virginia The State of Virginia on Tuesday 29th April 2003 enacted the toughest anti-spam legislation of any US State so far, imposing har... 2003-04-30 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/6/spammers-grab-msn-hotmail-addresses The one thing that plagues Hotmail users more than any other Internet problem is the amount of spam hotmail.com addresses receiv... 2003-01-05 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/4/europe-outlaws-spam The European Parliament has decided to accept the Council's Common Position which would require senders of advertisements by &qu... 2002-05-30