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9 July 2024

Overall botnet activity decreased between January and June this year by -6%. Cobalt Strike also declined by -41%. Meanwhile, android backdoors were on the rise, with new entries from Hook and Coper. Read the full report.

6 June 2024

With our abuse.ch partnership, Spamhaus is now beginning to release abuse.ch’s data via the Spamhaus Intelligence API. This has started with URLhaus, as a beta release. Utilize the data alongside rich IP and Domain reputation metadata signals - explore how with some example use cases here.

6 June 2024

From today, abuse.ch’s URLhaus data is available as a beta version for Spamhaus Intelligence API (SIA) users, and Developer License users - learn more in this blog post.

11 April 2024

Find the latest insights from Spamhaus Project researchers into domain abuse and trends with newly observed domains, in the Spamhaus Domain Reputation Update, Oct 2023 - Mar 2023.

6 March 2024

Find out how Spamhaus’ Data Query Service (DQS) has assisted Akéreon in spotting which emails to give a wide berth.

8 February 2024

In part two of effective strategies against inbound malicious email. Learn how to determine whether incoming email is malicious by leveraging your own unique email infrastructure data.

7 February 2024

January saw a 173% increase in new malware sites hosted in India, with a welcome 41% decrease in the US. Mirai is back as the most common malware with 851 samples shared, and there are now 19,292 YARA rules available for hunting on YARAify - find out more in January's malware report.

12 January 2024

In Q4 2023, the number of botnet command and control (C&C) servers increased by 16%. China, the United States, and Russia were the countries leading the pack, with a significant spike in Bulgaria, and a disappointing surge in active botnet C&Cs across big-name networks.

11 January 2024

Are you currently using the Spamhaus Project’s DNS Blocklists (DNSBLs) via DigitalOcean? If you've answered "yes" to both of these questions, you need to make some changes to your email infrastructure.