Comments on: The Dropbox Spammer http://blog.cloudmark.com/2012/07/18/the-dropbox-spammer-owned/ Intelligence Briefings from the War on Spam Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:06:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: John Medos http://blog.cloudmark.com/2012/07/18/the-dropbox-spammer-owned/comment-page-1/#comment-109999 John Medos Tue, 28 Aug 2012 07:21:36 +0000 http://blog.cloudmark.com/?p=1719#comment-109999 Personally I do not see the big issue in the fact we have received spam messages. We got loads of them anyway (thanks to the antispam filters for catching 99% of them). I think the problem here is that someone (the spammer) got e-mail addresses (private information in general) from Dropbox. We can only hope and trust that there is some simple answer how that happened and that there is no serious security breach out there.

]]> By: Dropbox Related Spam Leads Some to Speculate About Breach | News http://blog.cloudmark.com/2012/07/18/the-dropbox-spammer-owned/comment-page-1/#comment-104733 Dropbox Related Spam Leads Some to Speculate About Breach | News Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:03:34 +0000 http://blog.cloudmark.com/?p=1719#comment-104733

[...] Commenting on the reports, Cloudmark said that recent data from their Global Threat Network showed 364 different domains in use by this spammer. “Some of the domains point to an IP address shared with domains that have been seen by our system in prior spam campaigns as far back as 2008. So this is a long way from a new campaign,” the anti-spam company explained. [...]

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