Tag Archives: Bell Canada

Canada and Belgium show tandem Kelihos infections in October 2013 SpamRankings.net

Twin Kelihos infections in twin countries! Canada in both CBL and PSBL rankings shows tandem spam volume curves for Bell Canada‘s AS577 BACOM and for Shaw Communications AS6327 SHAW. Meanwhile, Belgium in both CBL and PSBL rankings shows tandem curves for Brutele‘s AS12392 ASBRUTELE and for Belgacom‘s AS5432 BELGACOM-SKYNET-AS. This is not a coincidence, since all four networks show Kelihos infections in the CBL data.

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Microsoft back on top in June SpamRankings.net

1 (2) AS 8075 MICROSOFT-CORP—MSN-AS-BLOCK
2 (1) AS 36692 OPENDNS
3 (-) AS 26769 BANDCON
4 (-) AS 22414 CRAIGS-NET-1
5 (-) AS 22822 LLNW
6 (-) AS 10912 INTERNAP-BLK

Beating even OPENDNS, Microsoft took #1 in U.S. PSBL June 2012 rankings.

Microsoft was last on top in the same rankings for April 2012. I thought Microsoft was a leader in Internet security?

In other news, Bell Canada’s AS 577 BACOM actually dropping off the Canadian June 2012 rankings from CBL data. Shaw took #1 and Iweb dropped to #2.

We have a new medical winner! It’s Hartford Hospital’s AS 11047 HHCC-ASN1. Gaining altitude at the end of the month was Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University with AS 20252 JSIWMC.

More on those and other developments in later blog posts.

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Canada, land of spam plateaus on SpamRankings.net

Snowshoe spam took #1 in Canada again, through AS 32613 IWEB-AS, on the May 2012 SpamRankings.net. That was the first week of a spam plateau per ASN. The next week saw a platau for AS 33139 CANACA-210. And the next week it was AS 6407 PRIMUS. Canada, land of spam plateaus! Does this mean spammers are shifting from ASN to ASN for successive weeks of spam campaigns?

The old-time winners, AS 6327 SHAW and AS 577 BACOM, kept spamming away, and came in #2 and #6 again. That’s in the rankings from CBL data. In rankings from PSBL data, IWEB, SHAW, and BACOM were #1, #2, and #3.

We actually saw less spam in May (CBL data) from Bell Canada’s BACOM than for any month since March 2011, the first month of rankings for SpamRankings.net. Congratulations Bell Canada!

The rest of the top six were upstarts, not much seen until recently. Iweb did make a bid for the top back in September 2011, but its recent predominance dates only from February of this year.

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Upset in Canadian spam rankings: Canaca took first, Bell Canada down to fifth!

Canaca-com’s AS 33139 CANACA-210 rose from sixth place in August to first in September in SpamRankings.net for Canada from CBL data. Long-time winner Bell Canada’s AS 577 BACOM fell from first to fifth.

Two ASNs had big spurts of spam in September. iWeb’s AS 32613 got to second place in the last two weeks of the month. Like in August, IPWorld’s AS 19875 did one big spam spew, but this time it almost doubled its closest competitor, breaking 100,000 messages!

What is making Canada suddenly attractive to spammers?

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