Spammers Transferring Operations To Russia

Following China’s security clampdown, Russian registrars have seen a rise in spam-related domain registrations.Goodbye China, hello Russia: Many spammers formerly based in China are creating their new domains in Russia, according to security provider M86 Security. Indeed, in just the past month, the company said that 6,000 new domain names registered to support spam campaigns have appeared, all tied to two different domain name registrars in Russia.The impetus for the move appears to be a tightening of domain registration rules by Chinese authorities, in particular China’s domain regulator, China Internet Network Information Center. But while authorities in Russia have also tightened their anti-spam domain name registration rules, “the Russian domain registrars have not seen much of an effect on the volume of spam domain registrations,” according to research from M86 Security.
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