spam – Martijn Grooten

Necurs update reminds us that the botnet cannot be ignored

Martijn — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 12:00:47 +0000

The operators of the Necurs botnet, best known for being one of the most prolific spam botnets of the past few years, have pushed out updates to its client, which provide some important lessons about why malware infections matter.
More on Virus Bulletin’s blog.

We are more ready for IPv6 email than we may think

Martijn — Mon, 21 May 2018 09:38:11 +0000

Though IPv6 is gradually replacing IPv4 on the Internet’s network layer, email is lagging behind, the difficulty in blocking spam sent over IPv6 cited as a reason not to move. But would we really have such a hard time blocking spam sent over IPv6?
Read more on Virus Bulletin’s blog.