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Spammers Hijack Internet Space Assigned to Egyptian President’s Wife

Summary: Spammers hijacked more than 4,000 IP addresses assigned years earlier to Suzanne Mubarak and the Suzanne Mubarak Science Exploration Center, using them to promote dodgy Web businesses, according to Spamhaus.org. Spamhaus tied the hijacked block to an organization with links to alleged spammer Michael Lindsay and iMedia Networks, and reported other stolen blocks including 255 IPs once assigned to the defunct Claremont Technology Group and more than 65,000 addresses assigned in 1987 to Fisher-Rosemount Inc.

What you should know: Hijackers target address blocks assigned to governments and defense contractors precisely because those allocations are less likely to be reported missing and are whitelisted by anti-spam tools, so their spam passes filters until the theft is detected - and Rod Rasmussen of Internet Identity expects a spike in this activity as the global supply of unassigned IPv4 addresses dwindles.

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Data Breaches
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