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Email Bombing and Spamming

Email bombing involves sending huge volumes of emails to crash a target's email account or servers. It is often done using botnets for denial-of-service attacks. Spamming also sends unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately. Both can spread malware and waste resources. While impossible to completely prevent, identifying and blocking source addresses can help reduce email bombing and spamming.

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Email Bombing and Spamming

Email bombing involves sending huge volumes of emails to crash a target's email account or servers. It is often done using botnets for denial-of-service attacks. Spamming also sends unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately. Both can spread malware and waste resources. While impossible to completely prevent, identifying and blocking source addresses can help reduce email bombing and spamming.

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Email Bombing and Spamming


Email bombing is characterized by an abuser sending huge volumes of email to a target address
resulting in victim’s email account or mail servers crashing. The message is meaningless and
excessively long in order to consume network resources. If multiple accounts of a mail server are
targeted, it may have a denial-of-service impact. Such mail arriving frequently in your inbox can be
easily detected by spam filters. Email bombing is commonly carried out using botnets (private
internet connected computers whose security has been compromised by malware and under the
attacker’s control) as a DDoS attack. This type of attack is more difficult to control due to multiple
source addresses and the bots which are programmed to send different messages to defeat spam
filters. “Spamming” is a variant of email bombing. Here unsolicited bulk messages are sent to a
large number of users, indiscriminately. Opening links given in spam mails may lead you to phish-
ing web sites hosting malware. Spam mail may also have infected files as attachments. Email
spamming worsens when the recipient replies to the email causing all the original addressees to
receive the reply. Spammers collect email addresses from customer lists, newsgroups, chat-rooms,
web sites and viruses which harvest users’ address books, and sell them to other spammers as
well. A large amount of spam is sent to invalid email addresses.
Sending spam violates the acceptable use policy (AUP) of almost all internet service providers. If
your system suddenly becomes sluggish (email loads slowly or doesn’t appear to be sent or
received), the reason may be that your mailer is processing a large number of messages. Unfortu-
nately, at this time, there’s no way to completely prevent email bombing and spam mails as it’s
impossible to predict the origin of the next attack. However, what you can do is identify the source
of the spam mails and have your router configured to block any incoming packets from that
address.

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