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Drowning in spam or scam emails? Here’s probably why

2026-01-27 · Read original ↗

ATT&CK techniques detected

2 predictions
T1566.002Spearphishing Link
45%
“or similar masking services when signing up to new services, to reduce the risk associated with data breaches. - some identity protection products and services such as haveibeenpwned can scour the dark web for your details to see if they have already been breached and / or alert …”
T1589.002Email Addresses
31%
“to unearth. public web scraping spammers don ’ t just source their email lists from large - scale data breaches. some of them get hold of these details by using bots to scrape public - facing websites like social media platforms. bad bot traffic accounts for 37 % of all internet …”

Summary

Has your inbox recently been deluged with unwanted and even outright malicious messages? Here are 10 possible reasons – and how to stem the tide.