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It puzzles me that all these spam/fishing operations are being uncovered by an accident and there's no proactive private or nonprofit organizations pursuing the
by uladzislau 10y ago
It puzzles me that all these spam/fishing operations are being uncovered by an accident and there's no proactive private or nonprofit organizations pursuing these criminals.
Overall our current state of (an average user) security can be described as Swiss cheese where anyone with malicious intent can poke a hole and use it without any repercussions.
- Kalium 10y agoThere are people who do this. ShadowServer comes to mind. A number of large companies (Google, Microsoft, ISPs, etc.) run anti-spam operations. It's harder than you might expect to do effectively.
- Sunset 10y agoBut is there an international interpol-style/black helicopters operation against such types. If there's one class of people I'd be glad to see have their human rights trampled, it would be spammers.
- mulmen 10y agoOr you know, we could uphold the rule of law and punish rule breakers within the framework we already have.
- gcardone_ 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Frog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Frog used to do it too.
- Swannie 10y agoThere must be more, but Cisco TALOS pursues the botnets used to distribute spam. E.g. http://blog.talosintelligence.com/2016/09/the-rising-tides-of-spam.html http://blog.talosintelligence.com/2016/09/the-rising-tides-o...