Knowing What Country Spams Websites Most?
Going back within my WordPress blog's administrative tools, Russia is leading the way, even most recent in Singapore to America, having the most rejections of spam than all other countries combined. Looking in history, Russia's Federation has been leading the enormous wave of spam, most recently in Singapore, to mine, a glorious painting contractor in Denver.
On the map below, showing Russia is hitting this site, which I am sure is no different than any other site in America or Singapore for that matter. Averaging a measly 30 per day, for mine, but know everything is proportional, others having much more. The main culprit is Russia attacking our financial systems, meddling in an election, stealing our intellectual property, Russia is leading the way spamming websites across America, even to this one.
Interesting to see 4 of the 5 top spam IP's blocked are the same number, varying last 3 digits.
US targets spam botnet after Russian arrested in Spain
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Tuesday, 11 Apr 2017
WASHINGTON: The US Justice Department said on April 10 it had launched an effort to take down the Kelihos botnet, a global network of tens of thousands of infected computers it claims was operated by a Russian national who was arrested in Spain over the weekend.
Peter Yuryevich Levashov operated the Kelihos botnet that infected computers running Microsoft Corp's Windows operating system since approximately 2010, the Justice Department said.
A criminal case against Levashov by the Justice Department remains under seal, but on April 10 the department announced a civil complaint intended to block spam from the botnet.
Russian-state media service RT reported Levashov was taken into custody in Spain over the weekend on a US warrant.
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It was not known if Levashov had an attorney. The Russian Embassy in Washington was not immediately available for comment.
Levashov, who has long been considered the likely identity of an online persona known as Peter Severa, spent years listed as among the world's 10 most prolific computer spammers by Spamhaus, a spam-tracking group.
Russian Spam Sees No Political Side
From Russian hackers used a digital hit list to target nations, including the U.S.
Secureworks’ list covers the period between March 2015 and May 2016. Most of the identified targets were in the United States, Ukraine, Russia, Georgia and Syria.
In the United States, which was Russia’s Cold War rival, Fancy Bear tried to pry open at least 573 inboxes belonging to those in the top echelons of the country’s diplomatic and security services: then-Secretary of State John Kerry, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, then-NATO Supreme Commander, U.S. Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove, and one of his predecessors, U.S. Army Gen. Wesley Clark.
The list skewed toward workers for defense contractors such as Boeing, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin or senior intelligence figures, prominent Russia watchers and — especially — Democrats. More than 130 party workers, campaign staffers and supporters of the party were targeted, including Podesta and other members of Clinton’s inner circle.
The AP also found a handful of Republican targets.
Podesta, Powell, Breedlove and more than a dozen Democratic targets besides Podesta would soon find their private correspondence dumped to the web. The AP has determined that all had been targeted by Fancy Bear, most of them three to seven months before the leaks.
Several years ago, federal agents traveled to Moscow to enlist the help of their Russian counterparts in arresting one of the world’s most pernicious email spammers. They were rebuffed, a former American law enforcement official who was there said. The spammer, who used the pseudonym Peter Severa, was protected, probably by the Russian government, and could not be touched.
The agents went home and waited for their target to make a mistake.
Last week he did, traveling for vacation to Barcelona, Spain, where the agents who had been following him for years were ready. Early last Friday, Spanish police burst into the hotel room where the spammer was staying with his family and arrested him. Simultaneously, cybersecurity operatives from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and several private companies took down his online network of tens of thousands of virus-infected computers.
On Monday, the Department of Justice unsealed court papers accusing the spammer, whose real name is Peter Levashov, of wire fraud and unauthorized interception of electronic communications. Mr. Levashov, 36, is expected to be extradited to the United States.
Officials said Mr. Levashov’s arrest and the takedown of his network ended a vast criminal enterprise. For more than a decade, Mr. Levashov used his online empire to enrich himself and help others drain bank accounts and commit stock fraud, officials said. He has flooded computers with millions of spam email messages advertising counterfeit pharmaceuticals and remedies for erectile dysfunction, using subject lines like “No amorous failure risk.”
How You Can Combat Russia's Spam In WordPress
Having a WP blog, many options are at your fingertips, safeguarding malicious malware, spam bots and the like, listing many below. If you do not have a security plugin for your WP blog, and not regularly backing it up, you could easily loose everything.
Akismet Anti-Spam
Spam protection, antispam, all-in-one, premium plugin. No spam comments & users, no spam contact form…
WPBruiser {no- Captcha anti-Spam}
An extremely powerful antispam plugin that blocks spam-bots without annoying captcha images.
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Captcha Bank: Anti Spam Captcha Plugin
Captcha Bank is a anti-spam captcha plugin for WordPress forms that adds secure image captcha or math captcha to prevent spam.
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AlphaOmega Captcha & Anti-Spam Filter
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Contact Form 7 Honeypot - Adds honeypot anti-spam functionality to CF7 forms.
Aggressive anti-spam plugin that eliminates comment spam, trackback spam, contact form spam, and registration spam. Protects against malicious attacks …
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