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Spammers Abuse Hosting Service Providers

Spammers Abuse Hosting Service Providers

September 1, 2014

Recent analysis of a spam outbreak revealed that spammers chose the IP addresses of hosting service providers to deliver unsolicited emails, to ensure better success of the campaign. Among the tactics used by the spammers to avoid triggering the spam filters there was also placing random words in the messages and sending them from newly-registered domains that have not been associated with delivering spam. Researchers at Trend Micro noticed the spike in spam activity and analyzed the message…