Don’t Like Spam? Complain About It.
Summary: A Krebs on Security reporter was embedded in a private underground spam forum, which its administrator shut down after the story, where members traded comment spam tools, spam bots, malware, and paid 'installs' on already-infected machines. Among the most popular services were email list managers that scrub distribution lists of inactive addresses and of security firms and anti-spam activists, including one list of more than 580,000 addresses tied to activists, security firms, and 'spamtrap' addresses, with a note crediting Russian spammer Peter Severa.
What's compelling: Spammers maintain a suppression list of more than 580,000 addresses belonging to the people whose job is to report them, plus known antivirus honeypots and malware scanner IPs to avoid, so the reporting infrastructure itself is mapped and traded underground.
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