Author Archives: The Spamhaus Project News

Q3 has seen a massive 82% rise in the number of new botnet command and controllers (C&Cs)… Continue reading Spamhaus Botnet Threat Update: Q3-2021→

by Asya Natochin, Spamhaus Project Team

Over the past year, Spamhaus has noticed a surge… Continue reading Spammer Abuse of Free Google Services→

This quarter, the Spamhaus researchers have observed a 12% reduction in newly observed… Continue reading Spamhaus Botnet Threat Update: Q2-2021→

At the end of January 2021, Europol announced that a coordinated group of international authorities… Continue reading Emotet Email Aftermath→

One of the many tricks in the modern miscreant’s toolbox is using compromised websites to evade… Continue reading WordPress compromises: What’s beyond the URL?→

Thank you to our guest author, Laura Atkins, for this blog post. Laura is a founding partner… Continue reading You can’t buy data hygiene→

After a quiet(ish) end to 2020 in Spamhaus’ botnet world, the first quarter of this year… Continue reading Spamhaus Botnet Threat Update: Q1-2021→

We’ve been making changes to the Blocklist Removal Center (BRC). “Thank you,â€� we hear… Continue reading Good-bye, Blocklist Removal Center. Hello, IP and Domain Reputation Checker.→

Back in late 2019, we advised of some new return codes for users of our public mirrors. We… Continue reading Using our public mirrors? Check your return codes now→

The successful takedown of the Emotet C2 infrastructure announced January 27th 2021 is no small… Continue reading Emotet is disrupted, but the malware it installed lives on→