http://www.spamhaus.org/newsindex.lasso Spamhaus tracks the Internet's Spammers, Spam Gangs and Spam Services, provides dependable realtime anti-spam protection for Internet networks, and works with Law Enforcement to identify and pursue spammers worldwide. en-gb http://www.spamhaus.org/images/sh_logo1.jpg http://www.spamhaus.org/ 260 32 http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=678 Spamhaus has observed a newer type of distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) which has only recently become popular among c... Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:39:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=676 After the November 9, 2011 successful law-enforcement dismantling of a huge cybercrime network in an operation dubbed 'Ghost Cli... Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:11:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=675 On November 9, 2011 the FBI announced the successful dismantling of a huge cybercrime network in an operation dubbed 'Ghost Clic... Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:13:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=674 This week sees the arrival of LondonCyber, a conference organised by the British Government's Foreign Office and reported to hav... Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:57:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=673 If The Netherlands has penalties for filing false reports and wasting police time, Dutch ISP 'A2B Internet' will be looking at a... Fri, 14 Oct 2011 06:26:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=672 If one admonishes for poor practice, one should encourage better practice.

On Friday we wrote about an email sent by the UK t... Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:43:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=671 Phishing. Broadly speaking, sending out emails which misdirect people to supply confidential information to miscreants. One such... Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:45:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=670 On the 2nd September 2011 Spamhaus was successful in its final appeal which reduced a baseless $11.7 million default judgment do... Mon, 05 Sep 2011 13:25:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=669 All too frequently electronic security breaches result from some form of social engineering trick which entices a user to visit ... Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:58:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=668 The Spamhaus Project has released a document outlining Spamhaus' strategy with respect to Spamhaus' IP blocklists and their futu... Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:00:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=667 5 March 2011: One year ago this week, The Spamhaus Project released a new spam-blocking advisory list for the world's internet ... Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:51:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=665 On Monday Spamhaus became aware that the main Wikileaks website, wikileaks.org, was redirecting web traffic to a 3rd party mirro... Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:00:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=664 Spamhaus.org has been a frequent target of forged e-mails over the years and once again we're seeing a rise in those sorts of sp... Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:20:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=663 When it became clear that the UK's National Security Strategy (published today) would highlight "Cybersecurity" as one of the mo... Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:00:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=662 The Spamhaus Project has released a whitelist called the Spamhaus Whitelist. Long awaited in the industry, the Spamhaus Whitelis... Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:00:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=660 "Spamhaus Blocks Gmail" - A catchy headline which certainly got the twitterati going. However, it wasn't true.

Recently some ... Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:16:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=658 Leaving a wake of over 12 years of criminal spamming and trillions of sent junk emails behind him, long time ROKSO-listed spamme... Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:39:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=655 1 March 2010: The Spamhaus Project is proud to release its newest spam-blocking advisory list to the world's internet users, th... Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:04:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=654 The idea of "opt in" is central to the legitimate, non-spam use of bulk e-mail. Without "opt in" policies, any and all e-mail ad... Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:01:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=653 Unfortunatly for Renukanth Subramaniam, the "loner with a modest lifestyle" who helped run the secretive website where cybercrim... Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:27:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=652 China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) - China's own domain regulator - last week criticised Xinnet.com and some othe... Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:51:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=651 In October, Comcast Corporation, the USA's largest provider of high-speed Internet to private homes, announced the roll-out of i... Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:10:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=650 On the two-month anniversary of our announcement of the Spamhaus CSS, we thought it's time to take a look at its effect against ... Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:13:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=649 The Herbalking aftermath continues with a US federal judge ordering ringleader Lance Atkinson to pay the US Federal Trade Commis... Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:53:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=647 Two New Zealanders well known to Spamhaus have been fined for their roles in the biggest pharmaceutical spamming operation in th... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:00:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=646 While filtering methods for botnet spam are now quite effective, a new breed of static-IP address spammers has evolved, and thei... Sat, 03 Oct 2009 05:22:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=645 There is nothing like a visual representation to show how botnet spam traffic dries up when a major eastern European run host (i... Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:41:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=644 During the last week of May, 2009, some senders experienced mail rejected by yahoo.com which referenced Spamhaus PBL data. But w... Sat, 30 May 2009 00:45:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=643 Last month we mentioned upcoming changes to ISP's PBL Account pages. We're pleased to announce that the first phase of those imp... Tue, 19 May 2009 17:51:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=642 We'd like to show you what some typical broadband space looks like in terms of spam-sending bots and Policy Block List (PBL) lis... Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:45:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=641 Snowshoe spamming has been around for many years but during 2008 a few USA spammers honed the technique to a fine edge. It has g... Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:29:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=640 Following the October 2008 shut down of the largest US based host of trojan malware, botnet command and control systems (C&Cs) a... Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:32:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=639 A person well known to Spamhaus, Judy Devenow, one of long time spamming kingpin and convicted felon Alan Ralsky's gang, plead g... Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:13:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=638 The #1 worst spam gang on the Internet for much of 2007 and 2008, and active since at least 2005, has been indicted by the US Fe... Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:30:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=637 Or "Frea Speach," as spammers write with their notoriously bad spelling while yammering about their right to send spam. There is... Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=636 When cybercrime is mentioned it never takes long for Russia and the Ukraine to enter the picture. However, while a lot of cyberc... Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:02:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=635 Closed Loop Confirmed Opt In is the full technical term for the best opt-in subscription practice around. But whether you call i... Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:01:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=634 There is lots of spam going around with funny subjects like "Mike Tyson to Fight Michael Jackson" or "Afghanistan to be 51st US ... Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:19:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=633 A lot of people are using our SBL and XBL lists to guard their mail infrastructure against the incoming floods of spam. While we... Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:55:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=631 There's been a lot of use of the term "ecosystem" in the e-mail industry lately. It's a good description of the complex environm... Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:52:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=630 (From a discussion in a private anti-abuse industry workgroup list in November 2007 regarding the need for extensive restructuri... Fri, 15 Feb 2008 02:20:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=628 One year ago this month, Spamhaus launched the Policy Block List, also known as the PBL. Now a year later we look back to see w... Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:30:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=627 As reported by the Detroit Free Press on January 9, 2008, spammer Alan Ralsky of West Bloomfield, Michigan was brought into U.S.... Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:33:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=626 The US Department of Justice went public on January 3rd with the indictment of Alan Ralsky and 10 others who helped him. <a href... Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:41:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=624 Anyone remotely involved in the fight against spam has heard of the Storm worm. While Storm has used a variety of social enginee... Tue, 01 Jan 2008 01:21:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=617 When the routes to the older IP address mapped to the Russian Business network began to no longer route on the internet, Spamhau... Fri, 16 Nov 2007 05:39:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=611 On May 30, 2007, one of the most persistent professional spammers, Robert Alan Soloway, was indicted by a grand jury in Seattle,... Wed, 30 May 2007 20:00:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=165 Microsoft Corporation has won what could be the largest award against a spammer in Europe thus far. Paul Fox, whose e-mail mess... Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=161 The Australian Communications Authority (ACA) has taken action against a spammer in the first case to be brought under Australia... Thu, 23 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=160 During two keynote speeches at the Infosecurity Europe conference at Olympia (London UK), Lord Harris of Haringey warned the UK ... Wed, 27 Apr 2005 17:45:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=156 Spam, now at 75% of all email traffic arriving at most ISPs mail servers, has come mainly from two types of source - either sent... Thu, 03 Feb 2005 23:15:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=155 [Update: The 9 year sentence was overturned on appeal, the spammer did go to prison for other crimes]

Jeremy Jaynes of Ralei... Thu, 04 Nov 2004 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=154 United Nations - World Summit on the Information Society
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
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The me... Mon, 19 Jul 2004 00:00:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=152 For many months the Spamhaus team have been working with teams from Law Enforcement Agencies in the United States and United Kin... Thu, 29 Apr 2004 09:41:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=151 London, 1 January 2004

To help stop the rising tide of spam coming from illegal 3rd party exploits, the Spamhaus Project today ... Thu, 01 Jan 2004 06:00:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=150 Against the advice of all anti-spam organizations, the U.S. House of Representatives has passed the CAN-SPAM Act, a bill backed ... Sat, 22 Nov 2003 22:00:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=13 A new virus released by spammers on Saturday 1st November is infecting computers worldwide, and this time the purpose of the vir... Sun, 02 Nov 2003 20:00:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=9 The word Spam means "Unsolicited Bulk Email". Unsolicited means that the Recipient has not granted verifiable permission for the... Wed, 14 May 2003 11:29:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=8 The State of Virginia on Tuesday 29th April 2003 enacted the toughest anti-spam legislation of any US State so far, imposing har... Wed, 30 Apr 2003 14:22:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=6 The one thing that plagues Hotmail users more than any other Internet problem is the amount of spam hotmail.com addresses receiv... Sun, 05 Jan 2003 13:18:00 GMT http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=4 The European Parliament has decided to accept the Council's Common Position which would require senders of advertisements by "el... Thu, 30 May 2002 18:21:00 GMT