Tag: spammers’ compendium
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ROPEMAKER email exploit is of limited practical use
Researchers at Mimecast have published details ( pdf ) of an email exploit they call ‘ROPEMAKER’ (short for ‘Remotely Originated Post-delivery Email Manipulation Attacks Keeping Email Risky’), which allows an email sender with malicious intentions to modify the appearance of an email after it has been delivered. The idea is rather simple: a lot of…
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ROPEMAKER email exploit is of limited practical use
Researchers at Mimecast have published details ( pdf ) of an email exploit they call ‘ROPEMAKER’ (short for ‘Remotely Originated Post-delivery Email Manipulation Attacks Keeping Email Risky’), which allows an email sender with malicious intentions to modify the appearance of an email after it has been delivered. The idea is rather simple: a lot of…
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Left-to-right override makes a return in spam
Trick shows that spammers still try to beat content-based filters. A decade ago, when spam had become a serious issue, most spam filters tried to block the unwanted emails based on their content. This resulted in a cat-and-mouse game between spammers and spam filters, with the former constantly looking for new ways to obfuscate the…