Spoof Spamhaus ads spammed out

Mail campaign claims to promote spam fighters.

Spam-fighting organisation

Spamhaus

has been subjected to an attack on its reputation this week, with a sizeable campaign of spams containing promotional information about the company and the services it provides.

The ‘Joe-Job’ emails come from faked sender addresses and use typically nonsensical, randomly generated subject lines, but the body of the mail contains genuine information about the

Spamhaus Project

, gathered from its website. The messages contain no web or email addresses for

Spamhaus

, but appear to be an attempt to DDoS the project’s Geneva-based phone lines and postbag.

The attack is the latest in a string of attacks on the organisation, including several such mail campaigns and a long-running DDoS bombardment, but is notable for the size of the spam run. Some information on attacks suffered by

Spamhaus

is

here

, and spam-watchers have blogged on the latest campaign

here

(at

McAfee

) and

here

(at

Sophos

).

Posted on 10 July 2007 by

Virus Bulletin