Tag Archives: U.S.

Which ASNs showed most Ogee snowshoe spam in March and early April?

Snowshoe spamming begins to look like a rising tide.

Peaking at the end of March 2012, the Ogee snowshoe spam winner is AS 16226 GNAXNET-AS – Global Net Access LLC. GNAXNet actually placed another Autonomous System in the same time frame, AS 3595.

U.S. Brinkster’s AS 33055 BCC-65-182-96-0-PHX finally cleaned up its act and went to zero Ogee volume 11 April 2012. Canada’s AS 32613 IWeb also went to zero on 23 March 2012.

On the other hand, it looks like a new surge of snowshoe spam is starting mid-April, including some organizations maybe not usually considered hosting companies, such as Cogent’s AS 174.

Meanwhile, Belarus’ AS 6697 BELPAK-AS already went from #7 to #5 worldwide in March, pushing Belarus up from #16 to #12 among countries.

And NOC’s AS 21788 keeps on rolling waves of snowshoe spam.

All these volume numbers and rankings are provisional, especially considering we’re seeing so many ASes and netblocks that were previously not spamming that we’re tuning our database to be sure we’re properly accounting for them all.

Nonetheless, it looks like snowshoe may be a rising spamming strategy.

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India, Bank of America, and CyberSURF: December 2011 SpamRankings.net

In SpamRankings.net for December 2011, worldwide India spammed the most, while Bank of America topped one U.S. ranking, and CyberSURF peaked in Canada, but Cleveland Clinic cleaned up its act.

More on those and other interesting rankings in later posts.

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China does not lead Country Rankings from SpamRankings.net

An area where China does not lead the world: Country rankings by SpamRankings.net. China is only #13, but Brazil, Russia, and India (the other three BRICs) are in the top five countries by total spam messages for October 2011. U.S. is #10.

Vietnam came from behind a few months ago to place second for October.

Brazil had slumped as low as #6 in July, but has pulled back up into the leading pack.

After the top five, it’s a long-tail distribution indeed. Continue reading →

Twitter Reschedules

whereistheirvote.jpg Twitter recognizes that a network upgrade is important, but the role twitter is playing in Iran is more important, and reschedules for 1:30 AM Iranian time. Now that’s risk management!

Would that U.S. states had all rescheduled Diebold and the like to the junk heap after the 2000 U.S. election.

Also notice who twitter’s hosting service is: NTT America. I’ve been predicting for years that the U.S. duopoly’s intransigence would lead to NTT and other competent international ISPs eating their lunch, and I see it’s beginning to happen.

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