Collaborate Disseminate
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Axios: The average American received roughly 42 spam texts just in the month of March, according to new data from RoboKiller, an app that blocks spam calls and texts. Spammers like using text messages because of… Continue reading Americans Are Drowning In Spam
I recently built a website using Django. It has a contact form and some minimal pages about me and my work portfolio. I have been getting a few spam messages a day and their content intrigues me (screenshot attached). They are just a few w… Continue reading What kind of loophole are spam messages, containing just a few words and no links, trying to exploit?
Yesterday somebody hacked my E-mail server and has sent out many spam E-mails to people.
Today my data center provider e-mailed me to turn it off immediately.
I uploaded the SMTP log file here:
https://gofile.io/d/TvPxmC
Please tell me h… Continue reading How find hacker’s ip of my installed Mail Enable
We are a small company. We’re using G-suite service.
Every once in a while we receive spam emails sent to almost all employees with our Boss’s Name, and boss email in signature.
And our correct emails are in the "TO" or "CC&… Continue reading How did spammers get our boss info and employees info?
Just got an email that mentioned, in very broken english, having hacked my email etc. and actually managed to list my current password of that email account. The mail was, apparently, send by that very email and is, only in outlook, dated … Continue reading Email supposedly from the future mentioning fairly recent password
With just a few weeks until the April 15 deadline for US individuals and businesses to file their tax returns, scammers are as busy as ever.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog. Continue reading As tax deadlines approach, Emotet malware disguises itself in an IRS email
The other day I was using Google News, clicked a Politico link, and got a popup saying Google had selected me to get a free iPad if I answered some survey questions. I didn’t fall for it but I had never gotten anything like this before on … Continue reading Spam popup using Google news
No – there aren’t women in Ukraine are keen to have a sexy webcam chat with you right now. Continue reading No, women in Ukraine aren’t up for a sexy webcam chat right now
The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) were the target of nearly 50 million malicious email attacks between 1st October 2021 and the end of January 2022. This is according to official figures obtained via a Freedom of Information act (FOI) request,… Continue reading BBC targeted with 383,278 spam, phishing and malware attacks every day
To my knowledge, there’s no common standard for sysadmins to publish trusted domains for specific use cases.
If it exists, I would presume that this might limit phishing attacks. Think of my question here as an extension of SPF/DMARC/DKIM,… Continue reading Is there a standard for fencing email domains to specific use cases?