ICO Fines Manchester Firms £150K for Flood of Unlawful Spam Texts
Two Manchester-based companies, Quick Tax Claims Limited and National Debt Advice Limited, have been fined a combined £150,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for bombarding individuals with over 7.5 million spam text messages. The fines come after an...
It turns out you don’t need a license to hunt for spam.
Jay Fink had an interesting little business. If you lived in California, you could give him access to your email account, he'd look through the spam folder for spam that appeared to violate the state anti-spam law, and give you a spreadsheet and a file of PDFs. You...
Spam trends update for Sep-Nov 2023
Domains reported for spam declined for the third straight quarter, but we still see over 200,000 unique spam domains month after month. New TLDs and subdomain reseller accounts continued to attract more spammers. Bulk registrations of spam domains over the course of...
Do you need a license to hunt for spam?
Jay Fink had an interesting little business. If you lived in California, you could give him access to your email account, he'd look through the spam folder for spam that appeared to violate the state anti-spam law, and give you a...
CRTC CRACKS DOWN ON PHISHING SCAM, IMPOSES $40,000 PENALTY
On October 30, 2023, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) took a decisive stand against digital threats by issuing a $40,000 penalty to Sami Medouni, a Quebec resident, for allegedly orchestrating a high-volume phishing campaign. The...
Cybercrime Supply Chain 2023: Measurements and Assessments of Cyber Attack Resources and Where Criminals Acquire Them
Interisle Consulting released a study, partly funded by CAUCE, that examines the supply chains that cybercriminals use to acquire resources for malware, spam and phishing attacks. The study used over 10M reports collected at their Cybercrime Information...
Experian gets a slap on the wrist
Experian is one of the big three US credit bureaus. According to a recent FTC press release, when you put a credit freeze on your Experian account (something they are legally required to let you do), they make you create an account with an email address. Then they...
Email in 2022 and beyond
The current state of spam is a cause for concern for businesses of all sizes. Despite the efforts of law enforcement and technology companies, spam continues to be a pervasive and widespread problem. In recent years, the focus of spam has shifted from simple...
Remembering JD Falk – 10 years later
I can still hear it. ‘Hee hee’. That’s good. We all have unique laughs, but few are distinctive. Fewer yet bely the true nature of the human being issuing them. British insult comedian Jimmy Carr has one such laugh, a tri-tone ‘dah dah DUH’, rising on the third...
Internet Society Send An Open Letter to the Government of Canada
Earlier this week the Internet Society sent an open letter to the Government of Canada regarding the progress of Bill C-10 "An Act to amend the Broadcasting Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts". CAUCE applauds and supports the Internet...
Phishing Landscape 2020: A Study of the Scope and Distribution of Phishing
Greg Aaron, Lyman Chapin, Dr. Colin Strutt and CAUCE Board Member David Piscitello, all of the Interisle Consulting Group, today announced the publication of the seminal report Phishing Landscape 2020: A Study of the Scope and Distribution of Phishing.
The report can be found at http://www.interisle.net/PhishingLandscape2020.html
Characterizing Robocalls through Audio and Metadata Analysis
CAUCE mainly focuses on abusive messaging, but our board has a wide and diverse background in anti-abuse efforts. Recently we came across this presentation on abusive robocalls dealing with an increase in Robocalling, trends in abusive calls, who is calling...
