20 November 2006
Top Spammers Listed
Spamhaus has published a list of the top spammers world-wide. It make come as no shock that all of them are men. Included in this list are 4 Russians, 2 Americans, 1 Israeli, Canadian and resident of Hong Kong. Topping the list is a Ukrainian man who goes by Alex Blood along with other aliases such as Alexander Mosh, AlekseyB, Alex Polyakow. He is known for spreading child pornography through a host of botnets and is associated with a Russian spam gang known as Pavka/Artofit.
Also revealed in the report was that about 200 professional spam gangs are responsible for about 80% of the spam world-wide.
With so few groups involved, you'd think it would be easy to eliminate spam by just not selling these groups Internet access, but also revealed is a list of ISPs who are responsible for the most spam, some of which also sell these gangs services in order to gain a profit.
Verizonbusiness.com leads the list of networks delivering the most spam. Next comes serverflo.com and in descending order, sbc.com, xo.com, proxad.net, rr.com, tpnet.pl, edu.tw, hinet.net, ttnet.net.tr.
If pressure could be put on these networks to do something about spam and to not provide services to known spammers, we'd see a huge difference in the amount of spam, but these companies would see a difference in their financial outlook so they don't care about the spam so much. After all people can delete it easily enough.
Also revealed in the report was that about 200 professional spam gangs are responsible for about 80% of the spam world-wide.
With so few groups involved, you'd think it would be easy to eliminate spam by just not selling these groups Internet access, but also revealed is a list of ISPs who are responsible for the most spam, some of which also sell these gangs services in order to gain a profit.
Verizonbusiness.com leads the list of networks delivering the most spam. Next comes serverflo.com and in descending order, sbc.com, xo.com, proxad.net, rr.com, tpnet.pl, edu.tw, hinet.net, ttnet.net.tr.
If pressure could be put on these networks to do something about spam and to not provide services to known spammers, we'd see a huge difference in the amount of spam, but these companies would see a difference in their financial outlook so they don't care about the spam so much. After all people can delete it easily enough.
