Spam Attacks

Sergio Rabellino rabellino at di.unito.it
Sun Sep 11 22:40:54 IST 2011


I've no analitics to share with you, but the i can confirm that i'm 
viewing an increase in spamming operations in the last 3 weeks. Mostly 
of these spams are translated into the language of the receiver, so (i 
think) more difficult to be tagged.

Il 11/09/2011 22:59, Paul Kelly :: Blacknight ha scritto:
> Hi Guys,
>
> Has anyone noticed a huge increase in smtp slamming recently?
>
> We have a busy mail cluster that has about 80k users. In the last 10 days or so we've seen a huge increase in IPs slamming the mail servers. The really odd thing is that it happens a few times a day and it's really intensive. Mostly the traffic hops off of RBL lookups. As an experiment today I moved 8 domains MX records to a stand alone Postfix box with just zen.spamhaus.org configured on it.
>
> The results are _insane_, a snippet from just today.
>
> Per-Hour Traffic Summary
> ------------------------
>      time          received  delivered   deferred    bounced     rejected
>      --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>      1000-1100          12          0          0         19       1776
>      1100-1200          26          1          0        112       2851
>      1200-1300          25          5          0         54       3256
>      1300-1400          66          1          0        200      13509
>      1400-1500         241          0          0        501      61974
>      1500-1600         229          3          0        520      55902
>      1600-1700          38          1          0         74       3750
>      1700-1800         197          2          0        441      47213
>      1800-1900         302          3          0        638      77602
>      1900-2000         134          6          0        248      38728
>      2000-2100          23          1          0         63       4482
>      2100-2200         169          4          0        216       2786
>
> Is anyone else seeing this?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul
>
> Paul Kelly
> Technical Director
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>

-- 
ing. Sergio Rabellino

Università degli Studi di Torino
Dipartimento di Informatica
ICT Services Director
Tel +39-0116706701  Fax +39-011751603
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