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  • Emotet trojan starts stealing full emails from infected machines

    Researchers at Kryptos Logic have discovered that the Emotet banking trojan is exfiltrating entire email bodies as opposed to merely email addresses. Emotet was first discovered in 2014 as a banking trojan but has since evolved to become mostly a distributor of other malware. A typical Emotet infection starts with an email attachment, which downloads…

  • Emotet trojan starts stealing full emails from infected machines

    Researchers at Kryptos Logic have discovered that the Emotet banking trojan is exfiltrating entire email bodies as opposed to merely email addresses. Emotet was first discovered in 2014 as a banking trojan but has since evolved to become mostly a distributor of other malware. A typical Emotet infection starts with an email attachment, which downloads…

  • Spam is mostly noise and that makes measuring it very difficult

    A recent blog post published by Recorded Future looked at the possible effect of the GDPR on the volume of spam and concludes there has been no noticeable impact. The question behind the post is a valid one: more privacy-friendly WHOIS records, inspired by the EU’s data protection regulation, could make it easier for spammers…

  • Spam is mostly noise and that makes measuring it very difficult

    A recent blog post published by Recorded Future looked at the possible effect of the GDPR on the volume of spam and concludes there has been no noticeable impact. The question behind the post is a valid one: more privacy-friendly WHOIS records, inspired by the EU’s data protection regulation, could make it easier for spammers…

  • Necurs update reminds us that the botnet cannot be ignored

    If, at some point in the past few years, you have looked at a spam campaign in which a lot of emails were being sent from Vietnam or India, there’s a good chance the spam was sent by the Necurs botnet. Necurs has been active for at least six years – Virus Bulletin published a…

  • Necurs update reminds us that the botnet cannot be ignored

    If, at some point in the past few years, you have looked at a spam campaign in which a lot of emails were being sent from Vietnam or India, there’s a good chance the spam was sent by the Necurs botnet. Necurs has been active for at least six years – Virus Bulletin published a…

  • We are more ready for IPv6 email than we may think

    In email security circles, IPv6 is the elephant in the room. While the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 is a relatively smooth affair for most of the Internet, and few people will have noticed that a large part of Internet traffic is currently using IPv6, email is still lagging behind: RIPE, Europe’s Regional Internet Registry,…

  • We are more ready for IPv6 email than we may think

    In email security circles, IPv6 is the elephant in the room. While the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 is a relatively smooth affair for most of the Internet, and few people will have noticed that a large part of Internet traffic is currently using IPv6, email is still lagging behind: RIPE, Europe’s Regional Internet Registry,…

  • Expired domain led to SpamCannibal’s blacklist eating the whole world

    The first line of defence in many a spam filter is to query one or more DNS blacklists to see if the sender’s IP address (and sometimes their domain) is listed as a known spammer. As the name suggests, a DNS blacklist is queried over DNS: to do a lookup for the IP address 1.2.3.4…

  • Expired domain led to SpamCannibal’s blacklist eating the whole world

    The first line of defence in many a spam filter is to query one or more DNS blacklists to see if the sender’s IP address (and sometimes their domain) is listed as a known spammer. As the name suggests, a DNS blacklist is queried over DNS: to do a lookup for the IP address 1.2.3.4…