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 RSS Feed Engine http://www.spamhaus.org/images/sh_logo1.jpg http://www.spamhaus.org/news/ 120 32 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/698/an-arrest-in-response-to-march-ddos-attacks-on-spamhaus http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/698/ <p>The Spamhaus Project offers congratulations and its sincere thanks to the Dutch Public... 2013-04-25 19:12:19 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/697/fake-spamhaus-moneypak-ransomware-blocked-pc-virus http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/697/ A number of Internet users are reporting a fresh version of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransomware_%28malware%29">ransomware</a>... 2013-04-16 14:00:04 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/695/answers-about-recent-ddos-attack-on-spamhaus http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/695/ <p> At this time The Spamhaus Project is getting more press enquiries than we can personally... 2013-03-28 02:51:21 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/692/problems-seen-in-transactional-messages http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/692/ <p>Some months ago a number of bloggers wrote about The Spamhaus Project's "new"... 2013-03-05 00:24:40 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/690/cooperative-efforts-to-shut-down-virut-botnet http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/690/ <p>During the past few weeks, Spamhaus has worked hard to shut down a botnet called "Virut".</p> <strong>Virut... 2013-01-18 15:09:22 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/687/how-hosting-providers-can-battle-fraudulent-sign-ups http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/687/ <p>Hosting providers are increasingly asking Spamhaus how they can prevent so-called... 2012-09-25 14:36:23 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/685/spam-botnets-the-fall-of-grum-and-the-rise-of-festi http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/685/ <p>In July 2012, FireEye in cooperation with other security organisations, such as Spamhaus,... 2012-08-14 10:50:08 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/683/spamhaus-releases-bgp-feed-bgpf-and-botnet-cc-list-bgpcc http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/683/ Geneva, 12 June 2012<br /> <br /> Today the Spamhaus Project announces the release... 2012-05-31 13:49:49 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/684/spamhaus-joins-world-ipv6-launch-day-with-ipv6-enabled-dnsbl-mirrors http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/684/ On 6 June 2012 many major internet service providers (ISPs), home networking equipment manufacturers,... 2012-06-06 11:54:11 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/681/spam-through-compromised-passwords-can-it-be-stopped http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/681/ Any account on a legitimate mail server is a valuable resource to a spammer or cybercriminal... 2012-04-30 21:44:04 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/682/snake-oil-spamming-chiropractor-gets-cracked http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/682/ Long time <a href="http://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/">ROKSO</a>-listed spammer... 2012-05-02 22:07:35 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/680/russian-registrar-naunet-knowingly-harbours-cybercriminals http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/680/ In November 2011, new terms and conditions (T&C's) for registering .ru domains were put... 2012-03-22 10:22:15 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/678/snmp-ddos-vector-secure-your-network-now http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/678/ Spamhaus has observed a newer type of distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) which has... 2011-12-23 17:39:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/676/ghost-click-dnschanger-could-isps-have-stopped-it http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/676/ After the November 9, 2011 successful law-enforcement dismantling of a huge cybercrime network... 2011-11-15 11:11:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/675/targeting-rove-digital-operation-ghost-click http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/675/ On November 9, 2011 the FBI announced the successful dismantling of a huge cybercrime network... 2011-11-09 20:13:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/674/whos-really-paying-cybercriminals http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/674/ This week sees the arrival of LondonCyber, a conference organised by the British Government's... 2011-11-01 16:57:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/673/dutch-isp-attempts-false-police-report http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/673/ If The Netherlands has penalties for filing false reports and wasting police time, Dutch ISP... 2011-10-14 06:26:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/672/santander-gets-it-mostly-right http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/672/ If one admonishes for poor practice, one should encourage better practice. On Friday we... 2011-10-03 14:43:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/671/uk-tax-office-sends-an-invitation-to-phishers http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/671/ Phishing. Broadly speaking, sending out emails which misdirect people to supply confidential... 2011-09-30 12:45:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/670/spamhaus-victory-in-final-appeal-in-e360-case http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/670/ On the 2nd September 2011 Spamhaus was successful in its final appeal which reduced a baseless... 2011-09-05 13:25:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/669/spamhaus-dbl-as-a-response-policy-zone http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/669/ All too frequently electronic security breaches result from some form of social engineering... 2011-06-10 12:58:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/668/spamhaus-releases-ipv6-blocklists-strategy http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/668/ The Spamhaus Project has released a document outlining Spamhaus' strategy with respect to Spamhaus'... 2011-06-06 14:00:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/667/one-year-anniversary-of-the-dbl-brings-a-new-zone http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/667/ 5 March 2011: One year ago this week, The Spamhaus Project released a new spam-blocking advisory... 2011-03-03 09:51:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/665/wikileaks-mirror-malware-warning http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/665/ On Monday Spamhaus became aware that the main Wikileaks website, wikileaks.org, was redirecting... 2010-12-14 17:00:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/664/spamhaus-forged-again-in-malware-phish-attack http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/664/ Spamhaus.org has been a frequent target of forged e-mails over the years and once again we're... 2010-11-29 18:20:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/663/uk-threat-from-cybercrime-is-very-real http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/663/ When it became clear that the UK's National Security Strategy (published today) would highlight... 2010-10-18 15:00:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/662/spamhaus-releases-the-spamhaus-whitelist http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/662/ The Spamhaus Project has released a whitelist called the Spamhaus Whitelist. Long awaited in... 2010-09-26 16:00:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/660/spamhaus-blocks-gmail-report-was-not-true. http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/660/ "Spamhaus Blocks Gmail" - A catchy headline which certainly got the twitterati going.... 2010-08-20 15:16:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/658/canned-spammer-the-godfather-alan-ralsky-locked-up http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/658/ Leaving a wake of over 12 years of criminal spamming and trillions of sent junk emails behind... 2010-03-04 05:39:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/655/approaching-100-spam-block-spamhaus-releases-the-domain-block-list http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/655/ 1 March 2010: The Spamhaus Project is proud to release its newest spam-blocking advisory list... 2010-03-01 09:04:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/654/state-of-maine-ag-oks-spam-list http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/654/ The idea of "opt in" is central to the legitimate, non-spam use of bulk e-mail. Without... 2010-02-03 18:01:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/653/darkmarket-loner-soon-to-have-many-new-friends http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/653/ Unfortunatly for Renukanth Subramaniam, the "loner with a modest lifestyle" who helped... 2010-01-15 07:27:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/652/congratulations-to-cnnic-china http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/652/ China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) - China's own domain regulator - last week... 2009-12-17 14:51:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/651/comcast-guarding-users-helps-protect-all-of-us http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/651/ In October, Comcast Corporation, the USA's largest provider of high-speed Internet to private... 2009-12-07 12:10:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/650/two-month-snowshoe-trek-results http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/650/ On the two-month anniversary of our announcement of the Spamhaus CSS, we thought it's time... 2009-12-03 09:13:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/649/herbalking-ringleader-gets-us15-million-fine http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/649/ The Herbalking aftermath continues with a US federal judge ordering ringleader Lance Atkinson... 2009-11-30 18:53:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/647/some-good-news-from-downunder http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/647/ Two New Zealanders well known to Spamhaus have been fined for their roles in the biggest pharmaceutical... 2009-11-20 10:00:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/646/announcing-the-spamhaus-css http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/646/ While filtering methods for botnet spam are now quite effective, a new breed of static-IP address... 2009-10-03 05:22:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/645/impact-on-cutwail-of-3fn-shutdown http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/645/ There is nothing like a visual representation to show how botnet spam traffic dries up when... 2009-06-16 21:41:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/644/erroneous-mail-rejections-at-yahoo http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/644/ During the last week of May, 2009, some senders experienced mail rejected by yahoo.com which... 2009-05-30 00:45:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/643/isp-pbl-account-new-look http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/643/ Last month we mentioned upcoming changes to ISP's PBL Account pages. We're pleased to announce... 2009-05-19 17:51:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/642/pbl-update-and-comparisons-april-2009 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/642/ We'd like to show you what some typical broadband space looks like in terms of spam-sending... 2009-04-13 07:45:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/641/a-snowshoe-winter-our-discontent-with-can-spam http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/641/ Snowshoe spamming has been around for many years but during 2008 a few USA spammers honed the... 2009-02-25 00:29:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/640/another-one-bytes-the-dust http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/640/ Following the October 2008 shut down of the largest US based host of trojan malware, botnet... 2008-11-17 05:32:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/639/spam-kingpins-hench-woman-pleads-guilty- http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/639/ A person well known to Spamhaus, Judy Devenow, one of long time spamming kingpin and convicted... 2008-10-15 20:13:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/638/herbalking-principals-indicted-by-ftc-and-new-zealand http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/638/ The #1 worst spam gang on the Internet for much of 2007 and 2008, and active since at least... 2008-10-14 18:30:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/637/virginia-court-oks-anonymous-spam http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/637/ Or "Frea Speach," as spammers write with their notoriously bad spelling while yammering... 2008-09-16 07:00:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/636/cybercrimes-u.s.-home http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/636/ When cybercrime is mentioned it never takes long for Russia and the Ukraine to enter the picture.... 2008-08-29 10:02:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/635/confirmed-opt-in-a-rose-by-any-name http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/635/ Closed Loop Confirmed Opt In is the full technical term for the best opt-in subscription practice... 2008-08-11 22:01:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/634/spam-malware-and-ftp-cracks http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/634/ There is lots of spam going around with funny subjects like "Mike Tyson to Fight Michael... 2008-07-25 23:19:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/633/using-the-sbl-and-xbl-against-spamvertized-urls http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/633/ A lot of people are using our SBL and XBL lists to guard their mail infrastructure against... 2008-06-27 13:55:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/631/the-spammer-agora http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/631/ There's been a lot of use of the term "ecosystem" in the e-mail industry lately.... 2008-03-16 21:52:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/630/blackhats-and-grayhats http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/630/ (From a discussion in a private anti-abuse industry workgroup list in November 2007 regarding... 2008-02-15 02:20:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/628/the-spamhaus-pbl-a-one-year-old-anti-spam-heavyweight http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/628/ One year ago this month, Spamhaus launched the Policy Block List, also known as the PBL. Now... 2008-01-29 22:30:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/627/us-feds-arrest-and-book-rokso-spammer-alan-ralsky http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/627/ As reported by the Detroit Free Press on January 9, 2008, spammer Alan Ralsky of West Bloomfield,... 2008-01-11 06:33:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/626/spam-king-alan-ralsky-indicted http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/626/ The US Department of Justice went public on January 3rd with the indictment of Alan Ralsky... 2008-01-03 23:41:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/624/the-increasing-importance-of-registrars-in-the-fight-against-spam http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/624/ Anyone remotely involved in the fight against spam has heard of the Storm worm. While Storm... 2008-01-01 01:21:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/617/rbn-as-chinese-as-caviar-borscht http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/617/ When the routes to the older IP address mapped to the Russian Business network began to no... 2007-11-16 05:39:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/611/rokso-spammer-robert-soloway-arrested http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/611/ On May 30, 2007, one of the most persistent professional spammers, Robert Alan Soloway, was... 2007-05-30 20:00:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/165/summer-spam-suits-show-some-success http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/165/ Microsoft Corporation has won what could be the largest award against a spammer in Europe thus... 2006-09-08 00:00:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/161/australian-spam-act-nails-first-spammer http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/161/ The Australian Communications Authority (ACA) has taken action against a spammer in the first... 2005-06-23 00:00:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/160/the-threat-from-the-net http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/160/ During two keynote speeches at the Infosecurity Europe conference at Olympia (London UK), Lord... 2005-04-27 17:45:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/156/increasing-spam-threat-from-proxy-hijackers http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/156/ Spam, now at 75% of all email traffic arriving at most ISPs mail servers, has come mainly from... 2005-02-03 23:15:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/155/jeremy-jaynes-gets-9-years-for-spamming http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/155/ [Update: The 9 year sentence was overturned on appeal, the spammer did go to prison for other... 2004-11-04 00:00:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/154/follow-australia http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/154/ United Nations - World Summit on the Information Society International Telecommunication Union... 2004-07-19 00:00:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/152/spammer-arrests-herald-ftc-crackdown-on-illegal-spamming http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/152/ For many months the Spamhaus team have been working with teams from Law Enforcement Agencies... 2004-04-29 09:41:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/151/spamhaus-releases-exploits-block-list-xbl-to-combat-illegal-spam-relaying http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/151/ London, 1 January 2004 To help stop the rising tide of spam coming from illegal 3rd party... 2004-01-01 06:00:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/150/united-states-set-to-legalize-spamming-on-january-1-2004 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/150/ Against the advice of all anti-spam organizations, the U.S. House of Representatives has passed... 2003-11-22 22:00:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/13/spammers-release-virus-to-attack-spamhaus.org http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/13/ A new virus released by spammers on Saturday 1st November is infecting computers worldwide,... 2003-11-02 20:00:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/9/the-spam-definition-and-legalization-game http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/9/ The word Spam means "Unsolicited Bulk Email". Unsolicited means that the Recipient... 2003-05-14 11:29:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/8/spamming-is-now-a-crime-in-virginia http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/8/ The State of Virginia on Tuesday 29th April 2003 enacted the toughest anti-spam legislation... 2003-04-30 14:22:00 http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/4/europe-outlaws-spam http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/4/ The European Parliament has decided to accept the Council's Common Position which would require... 2002-05-30 18:21:00