Microsoft curbs spam messages with new Exchange limit
Microsoft Exchange Online will support a maximum of 2,000 recipients per 24 hours starting in 2025. This limit should significantly reduce the number of spam messages.
Until now, Exchange Online has not had a similar limitation. The upper limit consists of 10,000 recipients; this will remain unc... Read more
Google sets stricter requirements for bulk email senders in fight against spam
Google wants to make Gmail inboxes free of spam, announcing stricter requirements that apply to senders of bulk email. The measures will go into effect in February 2024.
According to the tech giant, Google is trying to use AI technology to protect its Gmail users from spam and other unwanted e-m... Read more
Microsoft Outlook flooded with spam
Microsoft Outlook users have been hit by a "flood" of spam messages in their mailboxes since yesterday. Possible cause of the amount of spam are broken email filters in the tech giant's infrastructure.
According to several end users, Inbox within Microsoft Outlook is being significantly affected... Read more
PyPI packages under attack after phishers target developers
Developers and maintainers of PyPI are under attack by digital scammers through email phishing.
Several PyPI developers and maintainers have fallen for phishing scams conducted by digital scammers. The malicious campaign was disclosed by Adam Johnson, a project board member at Django, who receiv... Read more
TrickBot malware has collected login credentials from 250 million email addresses
TrickBot, the malware discovered in 2016, has collected the passwords and address books of 250 million e-mail addresses. Investigators from security company Deep Instinct have found that, reports TechCrunch.
TrickBot was originally a financially motivated malware that was first spotted in 2016. Sinc... Read more
Google’s TensorFlow tackles spam even harder in Gmail
Google tackles the amount of spam within Gmail even more. To do this, it integrates its machine learning framework TensorFlow with the mailapp. The new measures will complement existing Google algorithms against spam, and will further reduce the possibilities for spamming Gmail users.
In a blog post... Read more
In new spam mails is threatened with bombs
A remarkable new spam campaign has been launched, aimed at countries in the western world. The hackers threaten to detonate a bomb, unless the recipient of the mail makes a payment in bitcoin. Bombs have so far not been found in the locations where they would be located.
The message of the mails is ... Read more
Hackers ramp up email spam attacks during holidays
New research shows that hackers expand their activities during the holidays. Hackers send more spam, in the form of messages from postal workers and online shops, in the hope of gaining access to payment details of unsuspecting victims.
This is shown by new research by security firm F-Secure Corp. T... Read more
IoT botnet infects 100,000 routers to send spam
A new botnet has infected approximately 100,000 routers, connecting them to webmail services and probably sending large-scale spam campaigns via email. The botnet has grown in silence over the past two months, reports ZDNet.
The botnet was discovered in September by the Netlab team at Qihoo 360. The... Read more
Salesforce thinks it can deal with spam with blockchain
Salesforce wants to use blockchain to limit the number of spam-mails. The company submitted an application to the American Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday. The patent also includes the concept that the company has come up with.
The system "can help ensure that a message and its attachments ar... Read more