YTCracker says he gathered millions of email addresses and sent spam for referral payments.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 78 Details
“I could send them all an e-mail telling them to go sign up at this website and I’d get paid”
Technique
technique:spam
Also: pharma e-mail spam, spam e-mail, spamming
Mass unsolicited messaging used to generate referral traffic and revenue.
Mass unsolicited messaging used to generate referral traffic and revenue.
“He entered into the world of spam.”
Mass distribution of unsolicited email, used in the episode as the primary monetized activity of the botnets.
“the one thing botnets are really good at is sending out mass volumes of spam e-mails.”
| Direction | Predicate | Other entity | Origin | EP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| incoming | USES | YTCracker | Explicit | 78 |
| incoming | USES | Cutwail | Explicit | 110 |
YTCracker says he gathered millions of email addresses and sent spam for referral payments.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 78 Details
“I could send them all an e-mail telling them to go sign up at this website and I’d get paid”
Cutwail was designed and used to send large volumes of spam email.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Jack Rhysider EP 110 Details
“the one thing botnets are really good at is sending out mass volumes of spam e-mails”