{"id":620,"date":"2005-02-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/02\/02\/spammers-tricking-isps-into-sending-junk-mail\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:37:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:37:49","slug":"spammers-tricking-isps-into-sending-junk-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/02\/02\/spammers-tricking-isps-into-sending-junk-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Spammers &#8216;tricking ISPs&#8217; into sending junk mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to SpamHaus &#8212; an anti-spam organisation which compiles blacklists blocking eight billion messages a day &#8212; a new piece of malware has been created that takes over a PC and then uses it to send spam via the mail server of that PC&#8217;s Internet service provider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previously, these zombie PCs have been used as mail servers to send spam emails directly to recipients.  &#8220;The Trojan is able to order proxies to send spam upstream to the ISP,&#8221; said Steve Linford, director of SpamHaus.  Reports suggest that ISPs in the US have already been hit.<\/p>\n<p>Linford predicts that ISPs will see a growth in the volume of bulk mail they send and receive over the next two months, with spam levels rising from75 percent of all email to around 95 percent within a year.<\/p>\n<p>Linford said that ISPs need to act fast to take control of the problem.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This ups the ante in the need for filters,&#8221; said Mark Sunner, chief technology officer for MessageLabs.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/news.zdnet.co.uk\/internet\/security\/0,39020375,39186364,00.htm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3107,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions\/3107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}