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Primus dropped out of January 2013 Canada SpamRankings.net

The big winner was AS 7788 MAGMA-COMM, which dropped from #3 to #147 by decreasing from millions to less than a thousand spam messages in the January 2013 SpamRankings.net for Canada Canada. Magma had a brief spate of Kelihos spam in the middle of the month, but it only lasted less than a week. Almost as good was AS 6407 PRIMUS-AS6407, dropping from millions the previous month to a few hundred thousand, and from #6 to #11. That one while beating its Kelihos problem, seems to have developed a Cutwail problem, which was sending increasingly more spam at the end of the month. Since Magma was bought by Primus in 2004, Primus gets double congratulations!

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Darkmailer2 month in Canada December 2012 SpamRankings.net

It’s apparently Darkmailer2 month in Canada. One company got a grip on it, and two got much worse, in the December 2012 SpamRankings.net for Canada Canada.

AS 7788 MAGMA-COMM, bought in 2004 by PRIMUS Telecommunications Group, peaked in the second week and then got a grip on its darkmailer2 spamming. AS 11342 PATHWAY really gave AS 32613 IWEB-AS a run for its money; both seem to have a darkmailer2 problem. Pathway went from 2,871 spam messages seen by CBL in November 2012 to 21,593,775 in December 2012: that’s 7,521 times. However, iWeb once again won the spam-spewing month in Canada!

Congratulations to the four dropouts, especially AS 16532 ASB2B2C, which Continue reading →

Canada and Kelihos in October 2012 SpamRankings.net

The Canada Canadian top 10 were half the same as last month and half due to Kelihos in the SpamRankings.net from CBL data for October 2012. Canadian #1 iWeb (CBL; #10 PSBL) made it into the world CBL top 10 because of Kelihos. The rankings from PSBL data were much closer to the CBL ones for Canada than was the case for the U.S. or for the world.

In this logarithmic chart you can see #3 AS 6327 SHAW, #7 AS 577 BACOM, #9 AS 855 CANET-ASN-4, and #10 AS 6407 PRIMUS-AS6407, the only Canadian ASNs that improved their CBL rank for October, going almost straight across the middle, decreasing towards the end of the month.

Three of those relatively static four also were infested with Kelihos. (The fourth, AS 6407 Primus, had a Lethic problem.)

While 25,000 spam messages a day, as seen by CBL for AS 6327 Shaw, is quite a sneeze, it’s not much Continue reading →

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.