Mint Security starts to resell and support Spamhaus’s services in Finland. Block lists provided by Spamhaus protect 3 billion mailboxes every day. Spamhaus also operates in DNS services and BGP routers.
The effects of Corona spares no one. We are all affected, both larger and smaller companies and businesses. As far as the virus goes, we here at Mint are fully operational and workwise the probability of getting sick is smaller than for many others.
Planning for an industry standard compliant information security management system — in brief: carrying out an ISO 27001 project — can break cover from various starting points. Some organizations have already familiarized themselves with the standard, some have even written the first mandatory documents. Yet for many, this article could be the first contact with any form of security work at all.
Researchers at Spamhaus Malware Labs identified and blocked 17,602 botnet C&C servers hosted on 1,210 different networks. That is an enormous 71.5% increase from the number of botnet C&Cs seen in 2018. Since 2017, the number of newly detected botnet C&Cs has almost doubled from 9,500 to 17,602.
