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Re: I got a live one! - Spam source
From: Steve Linford <linford () spamhaus org>
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:53:42 +0000
On 25 Nov 2009, at 04:22, Russell Myba wrote:
Looks like of our customers has decided to turn their /24 into a nice littlespace spewing machine. Doesn't seem like just one compromised host.Reverse DNS for most of the /24 are suspicious domains. Each domain used in the message-id forwards to a single .net which lists their mailing addressas a PO box an single link to an unsubscribe field.
Classic snowshoe spam setup, probably a professional snowshoe spam outfit known to Spamhaus as 'Tactara' and 'Webzero'.
Snowshoe spam operations operate by contacting ISP pretending to be 'IP space brokers', they buy lots of IP space and have it all SWIPed in small chunks, mostly /24s, to an endless array of anonymous Wyoming and Delaware shell companies at UPS mailboxes. They then fill the /24s with freshly-registered 'nonsense' domains, tunnel into the server to hide their real location, and start the spamming. Usually almost every IP in the /24 has a spam cannon on it and a web page with just an 'unsubscribe' field.
They're the reason we created the CSS announced here: http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=646(please don't follow up to this post here on NANOG, as NANOG is not an appropriate forum for spam discussions)
Steve Linford The Spamhaus Project http://www.spamhaus.org
Current thread:
- Re: I got a live one! - Spam source, (continued)
- Re: I got a live one! - Spam source Michael Peddemors (Nov 24)
- Re: I got a live one! - Spam source Paul Ferguson (Nov 24)
- Re: I got a live one! - Spam source Russell Myba (Nov 25)
- Re: I got a live one! - Spam source Justin Shore (Nov 24)
- Re: I got a live one! - Spam source Truman Boyes (Nov 25)
- Re: I got a live one! - Spam source Eric Brunner-Williams (Nov 25)
- Re: I got a live one! - Spam source Jon Lewis (Nov 25)
- Re: I got a live one! - Spam source John Peach (Nov 25)
- Re: I got a live one! - Spam source Suresh Ramasubramanian (Nov 25)
- Re: I got a live one! - Spam source John Peach (Nov 25)
- Re: I got a live one! - Spam source Rich Kulawiec (Nov 26)
- Re: I got a live one! - Spam source Michael Peddemors (Nov 26)