Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Is there any analysis on root causes of mail account break-ins?

2021-11-17 Thread Natale Maria Bianchi
Almost 10 years ago I wrote this short blog article with some ideas arising from the examination of a fairly large numbers of incidents: https://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/681/spam-through-compromised-passwords-can-it-be-stopped I think that it is basically still quite current, except for some

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Is there any analysis on root causes of mail account break-ins?

2021-11-17 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Hi, On Wed 17/Nov/2021 09:12:13 +0100 Hans-Martin Mosner wrote: Here I want to focus on hacked mail accounts. I can think of two major root causes but I have no idea about their relative significance: I agree with Steve and Ángel that the main causes are reused passwords and phishing.

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Is there any analysis on root causes of mail account break-ins?

2021-11-17 Thread Steve Atkins
> On 17 Nov 2021, at 08:12, Hans-Martin Mosner wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I'm trying to understand the root causes and vulnerabilities that lead to > hacked mailboxes. Currently, we can handle dynamic IP ranges pretty well, and > we have an extensive list of network ranges whose owner are

Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Is there any analysis on root causes of mail account break-ins?

2021-11-17 Thread Ángel González Berdasco
Hans-Martin Mosner schrieb: Hi folks, I'm trying to understand the root causes and vulnerabilities that lead to hacked mailboxes. Currently, we can handle dynamic IP ranges pretty well, and we have an extensive list of network ranges whose owner are spammers or knowingly accept spammers as

[anti-abuse-wg] Is there any analysis on root causes of mail account break-ins?

2021-11-17 Thread Hans-Martin Mosner
Hi folks, I'm trying to understand the root causes and vulnerabilities that lead to hacked mailboxes. Currently, we can handle dynamic IP ranges pretty well, and we have an extensive list of network ranges whose owner are spammers or knowingly accept spammers as customers. So what mainly