Old nemesis spam becoming significant way for attackers to subvert data

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Date: March 14, 2017 at 12:26:22 PM EDT
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] Old nemesis spam becoming significant way for attackers to subvert data
>
>
> Old nemesis spam becoming significant way for attackers to subvert data
>
> http://www.networkworld.com/article/3180056/security/ibm-cisco-old-nemesis-spam-becoming-significant-way-for-attackers-to-subvert-data.html
>
>      Even the lesser known domains are already well-established in
>    spammers' business model. Of the top 20 TLDs used in spam
>    emails, X-Force observed seven new gTLDs in the top 10 ranks
>    of the overall list: .click, .top, .xyz, .link, .club, .space
>    and .site.  The new, generic top-level domains let spammers
>    vary their domain URLs and thus bypass spam filters and some
>    new gTLDs can cost as little as $1 to register, making them
>    more lucrative to spammers who can automate the registration
>    of hundreds of domains a day, Iffert wrote.  "We have some
>    predictions about the use of specific gTLDs in 2017 and expect
>    the previous gTLD usage trend to continue this year. For 2017,
>    the use of the .xyz gTLD in spam emails appears set to
>    continue on the same track. Over 6 million domains have
>    already been registered using this gTLD, almost half of which
>    provide only private/proxy WhoIs information on their
>    registrants, an indicator of potentially dubious use of the
>    domain," Iffert wrote.
>
> - - -
>
> --Lauren--



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