What are Mail Bombers?

In Internet usage, mail bombers (or e-mail bombers) are those that perpetrate a form of net abuse consisting of sending large volumes of e-mails to an address in an attempt to overflow the mailbox or overwhelm the server where the email address is hosted in a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack).

There are two methods of carring out an e-mail bomb mass mailing and list linking.

• Mass mailing consists of sending numerous duplicate mails to the same email address. These types of mail bombs are simple to design but their extreme simplicity means they can be easily detected by spam filters. Email-bombing using mass mailing is also commonly performed as a DDoS attack by employing the use of “zombie” botnets; hierarchical networks of computers compromised by malware and under the attacker’s control. Similar to their use in spamming, the attacker instructs the botnet to send out millions or even billions of e-mails, but unlike normal botnet spamming, the e-mails are all addressed to only one or a few addresses the attacker wishes to flood.
• List linking means signing a particular email address up to several email list subscriptions. The victim then has to unsubscribe from these unwanted services manually. In order to prevent this type of bombing, most email subscription services send a confirmation email to a person’s inbox when that email is used to register for a subscription.

List of Mail Bombers Parasites:

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» Aenima
Aenima Description Aenima is a mail bomber which is created to distribute massive amounts of anonymous e-mail messages and spam. Aenima has the ability to inundate some PC's as well as overload mail servers and local networks. The malicious spyware must be installed manually. ...
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» Fake-Mailer
Fake-Mailer Description Fake-Mailer is a hacking tool that was designed to generate and flood other user's PC's with massive amounts of anonymous email from your computer. Fake-Mailer has the ability to install malware on the users PC such as Trojans and adware applications. FakeMailer ...
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