Spam Attacks
- Thread starter Will Prowse
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LOL- no moles in Australia...
(there is an animal we call a mole- but it is a marsupial- more related to kangaroos or koalas than the mammal called moles overseas- and lives exclusively in the interior deserts of Australia- where there is precious little farming going on...)
Aussie 'moles'
AZ Solar Junkie
Maricopa, AZ
That’s ironic that we’d be getting attacked from China given that the majority of the products we’re helping each other to use are Chinese.
42OhmsPA
What's in a title?
... Part of the reason my AIO hasn't seen the interwebs...That’s ironic that we’d be getting attacked from China given that the majority of the products we’re helping each other to use are Chinese.
DIYrich
Solar Wizard
I still think new members shou
That would be an interesting option. For new users, if anyone submits a "report", they become "ignore" for everyone until a moderator can review.
OffGridForGood
Catch, make or grow everything you can.
Don't worry, you guys in the US are still number one in the spam email game...
/spam-emails-sent-daily-by-country/
/spam-emails-sent-daily-by-country/
OffGridForGood
Catch, make or grow everything you can.
And Canada is Number 7 ... with 1/10th the USA population!
BUT WAIT the Neatherlands is Number 3 with less than half the population of Canada!
BUT WAIT the Neatherlands is Number 3 with less than half the population of Canada!
The problem with those stats you posted or any other stats available anywhere is they are useless when it comes to who is actually sending the spam.Don't worry, you guys in the US are still number one in the spam email game...
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Since all real heavy hitters are using vpn's and open relays to punch thru the majority of spam. Figuring out where it actually comes from is almost impossible in any automated form which is what you need to make statistics.
You can track down a single spam email by hand but you can't really harvest stats automatically to do it.
Yep, the yanks need to get off their behinds and lift their game- or they will no longer be 'Number One'!!!
OffGridForGood
Catch, make or grow everything you can.
are you saying the Stats - themselves - are spam?
Might as well be as far as accuracy.
houseofancients
Solar Wizard
yet home to one of the biggest internet exchanges ( and Datacenters densities ) in the world
Amsterdam Internet Exchange - Wikipedia
OffGridForGood
Catch, make or grow everything you can.
So, does the data suggest a correlation between spam centres and internet exchanges, ranked by local cost per kWh ?! 
houseofancients
Solar Wizard
no, but Datacenter hosts servers/virtual servers...So, does the data suggest a correlation between spam centres and internet exchanges, ranked by local cost per kWh ?!
lots of public servers means loads of possibilities to misuse those are spambots
and then there is the anon hosting, which are by default misused as spambots/malware endpoints
add to that huge available bandwidth , and you have a spammers heaven ;-)
justinm001
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A very large majority of spambots are unknowing desktops and typically in the US, downloading malware and other things. Most residential internets have to block port 25 outbound for this reason. Now spammers are using these bots for otherthings like spamming sites and more frequently DDOS attacks to bring down networks. Also since computers are so fast and internet is super fast everywhere no one notices whats going on.
On top of this everyone now has dozens of iot devices in their homes all with zero or minimal security and phone home for firmware updates. Just takes a couple sketchy companies to load malware on their own devices and sell a smart switch and now have millions of endpoints. Wireshark any network with random iot and its insane how dangerous it it. There's posts all over the internet with people wondering why their LG washer is using 2GB bandwidth...
Most of this is US because we have zero restrictions and no repercussions, unlike EU which has things like GDPR that holds companies liable. Almost a year ago I found and reported a major vulnerability with a popular software that went unpatched. left it open and caught threat actors using the vulnerability. Sat down with 4 FBI agents with an entire list showing exactly what happened, how they did it and what they're doing and yet still they did nothing. The government doesn't care especially considering almost all their devices were hacked with the solarwinds vulnerability and someone using solarwinds123 the password for their ftp update server which they listed publicly on github.
Country blocking doesn't help and only stops like 10% of the bottom feeder threat actors who are too lazy to use a VPS or other device in a legit country.
On top of this everyone now has dozens of iot devices in their homes all with zero or minimal security and phone home for firmware updates. Just takes a couple sketchy companies to load malware on their own devices and sell a smart switch and now have millions of endpoints. Wireshark any network with random iot and its insane how dangerous it it. There's posts all over the internet with people wondering why their LG washer is using 2GB bandwidth...
Most of this is US because we have zero restrictions and no repercussions, unlike EU which has things like GDPR that holds companies liable. Almost a year ago I found and reported a major vulnerability with a popular software that went unpatched. left it open and caught threat actors using the vulnerability. Sat down with 4 FBI agents with an entire list showing exactly what happened, how they did it and what they're doing and yet still they did nothing. The government doesn't care especially considering almost all their devices were hacked with the solarwinds vulnerability and someone using solarwinds123 the password for their ftp update server which they listed publicly on github.
Country blocking doesn't help and only stops like 10% of the bottom feeder threat actors who are too lazy to use a VPS or other device in a legit country.
ksmithaz1
Solar / EV Junkie
Trying to correlate spam mail to a country is pointless. Unlike malicious attacks mail generally travels through gateways controlled by various email providers that are scattered everywhere. Most other direct injections are bounce/relay attacks where the content ends up being relayed through one or more compromised machines. Any kind of heat map is more of an indication of the security in place for the machines in those areas, not the source of the garbage being sent. Sad really, I used to run an open mail relay back in the day.
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