Another one bytes the dust
2008-11-17 05:32 - Following the October 2008 shut down of the largest US based host of trojan malware and botnet command and control systems (C&Cs), <a href=http://www.... >> read article
Spam Kingpin's hench-woman pleads guilty
2008-10-15 20:13 - A person well known to Spamhaus, Judy Devenow, one of long time spamming kingpin and convicted felon Alan Ralsky's gang, plead guilty to conspiracy an... >> read article
HerbalKing principals indicted by FTC and New Zealand
2008-10-14 18:30 - 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 Federal Trade Commission... >> read article
Virginia Court OKs Anonymous Spam
2008-09-16 07:00 - Or "Frea Speach," as spammers write with their notoriously bad spelling while yammering about their right to send spam. There is no right to send spam... >> read article
Cybercrime's U.S. Home
2008-08-29 10:02 - When cybercrime is mentioned it never takes long for Russia and the Ukraine to enter the picture. However, while a lot of cybercriminals are based in ... >> read article
Confirmed Opt In - A Rose by Any Name
2008-08-11 22:01 - Closed Loop Confirmed Opt In is the full technical term for the best opt-in subscription practice around. But whether you call it Confirmed, Verified,... >> read article
Spam, Malware and FTP cracks
2008-07-25 23:19 - There is lots of spam going around with funny subjects like "Mike Tyson to Fight Michael Jackson" or "Afghanistan to be 51st US State", or other equal... >> read article
Using the SBL and XBL against spamvertized URLs
2008-06-27 13:55 - A lot of people are using our SBL and XBL lists to guard their mail infrastructure against the incoming floods of spam. While we encourage all SBL-XBL... >> read article
The Spammer Agora
2008-03-16 21:52 - 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 environment that has grown up ... >> read article
Blackhats and Grayhats
2008-02-15 02:20 - (From a discussion in a private anti-abuse industry workgroup list in November 2007 regarding the need for extensive restructuring of e-mail systems d... >> read article
The Spamhaus PBL, a one year old anti-spam heavyweight
2008-01-29 22:30 - 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 what effect it has had.... >> read article
US Feds arrest and book ROKSO spammer Alan Ralsky
2008-01-11 06:33 - As reported by the Detroit Free Press on January 9, 2008, spammer Alan Ralsky of West Bloomfield, Michigan was brought into U.S. District Court in Det... >> read article
Spam King Alan Ralsky indicted
2008-01-03 23:41 - The US Department of Justice went public on January 3rd with the indictment of Alan Ralsky and 10 others who helped him. <a href="http://www.spamhaus.... >> read article
The increasing importance of registrars in the fight against spam
2008-01-01 01:21 - Anyone remotely involved in the fight against spam has heard of the Storm worm. While Storm has used a variety of social engineering tricks to propaga... >> read article
New York Times Makes Spam Headlines for the Wrong Reason
2008-01-01 03:34 - The New York Times, long known for its thoughtful and informative news coverage of spam issues, recently made itself part of the story when Spamhaus s... >> read article
RBN as Chinese as Caviar & Borscht
2007-11-16 05:39 - When the routes to the older IP address mapped to the Russian Business network began to no longer route on the internet, Spamhaus noticed a new set of... >> read article
ROKSO Spammer Robert Soloway Arrested
2007-05-30 20:00 - On May 30, 2007, one of the most persistent professional spammers, Robert Alan Soloway, was indicted by a grand jury in Seattle, Washington, on charge... >> read article
Summer Spam Suits Show Some Success
2006-09-08 00:00 - Microsoft Corporation has won what could be the largest award against a spammer in Europe thus far. Paul Fox, whose e-mail messages were intended to ... >> read article
Spamhaus helps Windows based spam filter systems
2006-07-01 00:00 - To help Windows based server administrators block spam, The Spamhaus Project has sponsored the conversion of a popular Unix open-source based tool to ... >> read article
Australian Spam Act Nails First Spammer
2005-06-23 00:00 - The Australian Communications Authority (ACA) has taken action against a spammer in the first case to be brought under Australia's Spam Act.
Spamme... >> read article
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