We found a massive spam operation — and sunk its server

guest · Apr 2, 2019

We found a massive spam operation — and sunk its server
Five million emails in ten days
April 2, 2019
https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/02/inside-a-spam-operation/

For ten days in March, millions were caught in the same massive spam campaign.

The emails were so convincing more than 100,000 people clicked through.
We know this because a security researcher found the server leaking the entire operation. The spammer had forgotten to set a password.

Security researcher Bob Diachenko found the leaking data and with help from TechCrunch analyzed the server. At the time of the discovery, the spammer’s rig was no longer running. It had done its job, and the spammer had likely moved onto another server — likely in an effort to avoid getting blacklisted by anti-spam providers. But the server was primed to start spamming again.
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