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Charter, Comcast, and Windstream got worse in December 2013 SpamRankings.net

Road Runner (Time Warner Cable) had four of the U.S. U.S. top 10 for December 2013, adding up to more spam spewed than #1 Charter and way more than #2 Comcast.

Two out of three of Road Runner’s entries got worse, and one, AS11427 SCRR-11427, popped up from #27 to join the top 10 at #9.

PaeTec (Windstream) popped up from #45 to #3 with one week’s burst of spam.

Internap‘s AS12180 INTERNAP-2BLK dropped out of the top 10, plummetting from more than 5 million spam messages in November to none observed in the CBL data in December. Congratulations, Internap! Continuum Data Centers’ AS53264 CDC-LMB1 also did well, dropping from #10 to #57, down from 1.5 million to 0.25 million spam messages.

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Global Crossing spammed the most from the U.S. in September 2012 SpamRankings.net!

Bar chart: September 2012 U.S. spamRankings.net from CBL Volume Winner and new champion: Global Crossing’s AS 3549 GBLX! GBLX won the September 2012 SpamRankings.net with almost half of all the spam from the top 10 seen in the CBL data and more than a third seen from PSBL. What accounts for this surge of U.S. spammy ASNs?

Top 10 botnets for top 10 ASNs, U.S., Sep 2012, SpamRankings.net

Pie chart: September 2012 U.S. spamRankings.net from CBL Volume Yep, it’s Festi for #1 GBLX, #2 AS 17184 ATL-CBEYOND, for #3 AS 7018 ATT-INTERNET4, #8 AS 7385 INTEGRATELECOM and #10 AS 1239 SPRINTLINK. Congratulations AT&T for making the list! Well, not really congratulations, since it means you let a lot of outbound spam out.

However, it’s Lethic for #4 AS 8047 GCI, #5 AS 22258 COMCAST-22258, and #6 AS 20115 CHARTER-NET-HKY-NC.

Line chart: September 2012 U.S. spamRankings.net from CBL Volume AS 3549 GBLX may have already peaked. AS 19529 RAZOR-PHL went up like a rocket at the end of the month! Will they swap ranks next month? And what’s driving RAZOR-PHL to the top? Hint: it’s the same as for #9 AS 25653 FORTRESSITX. Stay tuned!

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