Spammer: The rarer the domain name, the easier it is to escape

In order to bypass anti-spam tools, spammers now pursue a new attack trend - the trend of 'spam island-hopping'.

Anti-spam experts of security firm McAfee said that instead of using high-level domain names such as '.com, .biz or .info' domain names in spam attack campaigns, spammers have moved to use Small island domains in the link are attached to spam messages.

Recently McAfee has discovered a new spam attack campaign that takes advantage of the island name 'Isle of Man' and Takelau island. Previously, there were a number of other spam attacks that also took advantage of the names of islands all over the world.

The clue to McAfee's discovery of the trend is an ever-increasing number of emails containing the '.st' domain name - the domain of 'Sao Tome & Principe' island. So far the number of spams using these domain names continues to increase rapidly.

McAfee said that the spammers pursuing the trend of 'spam island-hopping' is because the anti-spam tools have not yet filtered emails that carry small island domain names. Using a domain name that is not a premium domain name, their spam emails will be harder to detect, even if it is a tool to filter the content of emails.

' The new trend is the clearest evidence for the spammers' relentless efforts to take advantage of anything to benefit themselves ,' said Guy Roberts, McAfee's Development Manager Anti-Spam Research & Development Team - said.
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