On 5/24/16 12:26 PM, Michael Wise wrote:
We're still seeing cases where a malicious actor, typically in Eastern Europe, will try and sign up a target email address for thousands of lists all at once, flooding their mailbox with confirmation traffic , perhaps to hide some other nefarious issues.
I wonder what the point is. How does the bad guy monetize it, or is it a coordinated attack against a specific victim? What other nefarious issues? Making the address useless or burying some other mail in the midst of the junk would seem to be a possibility.
If an attack against a specific victim, it would seem that unconfirmed marketing lists would be a more effective weapon than a bunch of random confirmation messages.
It kind of sounds like back in the college frat days of pranking someone by signing them up to Columbia Record Club and tons of bill-me-later magazine subscriptions, but that was usually aimed at a specific individual and watching the fallout was the fun part.
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