We're monitoring these government compromises, and yes.. it does appear
to be the same actors.. but it isn't what you think.. it is a bot
operator, and I don't think they really realize the power they have in
those compromised email accounts.. Just using them for either standard
spamming.. script kiddie stuff.
However, buried in there are one or two actors, who are propagating
phishing.. A lot of it is simple to prevent, but as you noted and
guessed, reaching their abuse and security teams is VERY difficult.
It's not JUST LATAM, but it is noticeable there.. Poland has seen a
bunch lately for instance.. And funny.. the list of countries you
pointed out are on our top noted lists as well.
But we 'try' to give some leniency to governments, but if it goes on for
a few days.. we aren't afraid to smack them as well. ;)
On 2024-11-14 22:05, Hans-Martin Mosner via mailop wrote:
Hi folks,
the government of Puerto Rico doesn't seem to be able to fix their spam
sources at salud.pr.gov (an O365 tenant if I understand correctly).
I've reported it to the (hopefully correct) Microsoft abuse address, but
did not receive a reaction (unlike the quick and satisfactory responses
to Hotmail abuse reports).
Does anyone know what's going on there? Are .gov domains off limits for
abuse handling? In Latin America it seems to be quite common that hacked
government e-mail accounts are used to spam, maybe Puerto Rico is
targeted by the same gangs who infiltrate the servers of the governments
of Ecuador, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico etc.
Cheers,
Hans-Martin
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