A global provider of email management platforms to Service Providers, EnableTS, sees a new trend in Spam attacks which has been growing over recent months and has now exploded during the last quarter. Spammers are targeting the 'falsepositive@' addresses for anti-spam vendors in a bid to be automatically increase the trust rating of spam. EnableTS spoke out today against Vendors who rely on quota based listing systems that work in favour of the spammers.

Anti-spam providers who operate unintelligent automated reporting systems have been hit hard by the spammers that generate the 'falsepositive@' spam. spammers are able to fool the automatic learning system into thinking the email is actually a falsely represented spam email by sending 100'000s of spam emails to the 'falsepositive@' email address of the anti-spam vendor, before blasting users of the service with spam.

During the last quarter through the EnableTS Platform which is deployed at ISPs and Hosted Mail Providers globally, EnableTS has seen the volume of mail that spammers are sending to 'falsepositive@' increase 25 fold. The threat that an ever increasing volume of spam has on the infrastructure of the Internet as well as to individual users is huge over the coming years. The proliferation of highly effective botnet applications that are delivered by email is something that Hosted Providers are having to take action against.

The email security landscape, over the past twelve months, has changed and the level of the threat increased. With security loopholes appearing monthly in browsers, operating systems and Plug-ins leave back doors open, the desktop is locked down to a degree. Sys Admins need to stop as much as possible getting through the door - this applies both to Service Providers as well as the Enterprise. The intelligence built into the system does not allow this kind of quota based automation with the EnableTS Platform, and, moreover, will protect the Service Provider by dropping the connection where possible, rather than accepting the mail into the DataCenter for analysis which often is a vulnerable process.