Re: [mailop] Massive Spam advertizing .xyz domains

2016-10-20 Thread Benoit Panizzon
Just a quick positive feedback on that case. I already noticed, that the massive spam avalanche suddenly dropped some when past week-end. Today I got feedback from gen.xyz that they had already suspended 20 of those domains prior to my complaint because of other complaints and that with the evide

Re: [mailop] Massive Spam advertizing .xyz domains

2016-10-13 Thread Stefan Haunß
I've seen this IP range you are talking about in cerber/ransomware variants doing scans on 6892/udp On 10/13/2016 02:37 PM, Benoit Panizzon wrote: > Hi Stefan > >> the question is what's behind those domains? i didn't have the time to >> analyze it, yet. > > I had a bit a deeper look into it. >

Re: [mailop] Massive Spam advertizing .xyz domains

2016-10-13 Thread Benoit Panizzon
Hi Stefan > the question is what's behind those domains? i didn't have the time to > analyze it, yet. I had a bit a deeper look into it. The Emails them self come from various IP Addresses. It's obviously a botnet. Almost all those xyz domains resolve to an IP within a /24 from AS41122. So I s

Re: [mailop] Massive Spam advertizing .xyz domains

2016-10-13 Thread Stefan Haunß
* to correct this: 200k uniq subdomains based on a few hundreds of domains On 10/13/2016 01:41 PM, Stefan Haunß wrote: > seeing the same here. > > .xyz domains went from almost zero to more than 200k uniq domains per > day. therefore no more ransomware right now... > > the question is what's beh

Re: [mailop] Massive Spam advertizing .xyz domains

2016-10-13 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Oct 13, 2016 07:46, "Stefan Haunß" wrote: > > the question is what's behind those domains? i didn't have the time to > analyze it, yet. > Super cheap, and further discounted first-year, registration fees. -Jim P. ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailo

Re: [mailop] Massive Spam advertizing .xyz domains

2016-10-13 Thread Stefan Haunß
seeing the same here. .xyz domains went from almost zero to more than 200k uniq domains per day. therefore no more ransomware right now... the question is what's behind those domains? i didn't have the time to analyze it, yet. Cheers, Stefan On 10/13/2016 01:12 PM, Benoit Panizzon wrote: > Hell

[mailop] Massive Spam advertizing .xyz domains

2016-10-13 Thread Benoit Panizzon
Hello Since about one week I notice higher load on my spamtraps. http://blacklist.woody.ch/rbltop.php Aeh, yes, nearly exclusively .xyz domains hitting my spamtraps at the moment. Anyone else noticing this? Worth notifying the registrar? Has anyone a good contact to nic.xyz? -Benoît Panizzon-