Spammers Moving To Disposable Domains 147
Trailrunner7 writes "Spammers and the botnet operators they're allied with are continuing to adapt their techniques to evade security technologies, and now are using what amount to disposable domains for their activities. A new report shows that the spammers are buying dozens of domains at a time and moving from one to another as often as several times a day to prevent shutdowns. New research shows that the amount of time that a spammer uses a given domain is basically a day or less. The company looked at 60 days worth of data from their customers and found that more than 70 percent of the domains used by spammers are active for a day or less."
Persistent little bastards... (Score:5, Funny)
been happening for years (Score:5, Funny)
As an SA at a hosted email provider I see this on a daily basis and could list several hundred domains just from the last few days' worth of reports. They hit the big registrars, attempt to automate as much as possible, create dozens of email accounts per domain, and turn on the spigot disposing of the domains immediately in the case of sending domains, and putting off the demise of the web domains as long as possible.
Fortunately, the activity levels of the greedy spammers far outstrips the activity levels of the normal user, that said, we still see occasional drip spammers.
Long ago I proposed a pay-per-view spectacular. Pasty faced pudgy sysadmins from around the world get air dropped onto an island studded with cameras and stocked with spammers and 419 scammers... Viewers can then vote online which sysadmins get which weapons. (Please gentle viewer, let me have the M1)
Re:been happening for years (Score:5, Funny)
Ah, the cluebat. An elegant weapon for a less civilized luser.
Re:Can't say I'm surprised (Score:3, Funny)
... assessments about my lack of adequate manhood.
So you're the one! I've got a bunch of email that must belong to you.
No! (Score:3, Funny)
Really? Are you serious? And this is news how?