{"id":201736,"date":"2017-03-07T12:30:13","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T10:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=201736"},"modified":"2017-03-07T12:31:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T10:31:54","slug":"spammers-1-3-billion-email-address-list-exposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/201736-spammers-1-3-billion-email-address-list-exposed.html","title":{"rendered":"Spammer&#8217;s 1.3 billion email address list exposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mackeeper.com\/blog\/post\/339-spammergate-the-fall-of-an-empire\" target=\"_blank\">MacKeeper<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/3176433\/security\/spammers-expose-their-entire-operation-though-bad-backups.html\" target=\"_blank\">CSOOnline<\/a><\/strong> have\u00a0released details about an investigation that revealed the workings of spam operation River City Media (RCM).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A cooperative team of investigators came together in January after I stumbled upon a suspicious collection of files,&#8221; said MacKeeper researcher Chris Vickery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Someone had forgotten to put a password on this repository and one of the biggest spam empires is now falling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RCM had not configured its rsync backups properly, leaving its records accessible on a public port.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I found an rsync server on port 873 that they had not put any password or security on and it has led to the downfall of a criminal enterprise,&#8221;\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/03\/06\/spammers-expose-billions-of-emails-after-failed-backup\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vickery told TechCrunch<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The spammers have been reported to law enforcement, and Vickery has found 1.34 billion email addresses which were set to receive spam.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Details of the even more abusive scripts and techniques have been forwarded on to Microsoft, Apple, and others.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/196604-helping-you-stop-sms-spam-from-insurance-companies.html\">Helping you stop SMS spam from insurance companies<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CSOOnline has released details about an investigation that revealed the workings of a massive spam operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":81761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[41790,41786,41784,41788],"class_list":["post-201736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-chris-vickery","tag-csoonline","tag-mackeeper","tag-river-city-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201766,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201736\/revisions\/201766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}