Dark Reading: Spammers Work Up A Hailstorm

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In their constant effort to evade anti-spam filters, spammers have devised a new way to deliver junk mail to your inbox.

12/19/2016
By Jai Vijayan

With the best anti-spam systems being able to catch upwards of 99.9% of all spam email passing through them these days, spammers have been forced to constantly adapt and evolve their tactics. Researchers at Cisco Talos this week have an alert on the newest one.

The method is dubbed "hailstorm" and builds on an existing tactic favored by spammers called "snowshoe".

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