Any abuse desk worker or Trust and Safety team member who has received a Spamhaus Blocklist email notification, can view the full details of the listing on www.
If you're not familiar, the SBL is a list of IP addresses that Spamhaus Project researchers have identified as malicious.
By malicious, we mean they're being observed as doing something untoward, e.g. sending spam, or snowshoe spamming, behaving like a bulletproof hosting company or hijacking IP space; in other words, they're the sort of IP addresses you don't want to accept email from.
When one of our researchers makes an SBL listing for an IP or range of IP addresses, they send the network or hosting company responsible for that IP an email notification.
Within this notification is a link to all the information relating to why the IP, or range, has been listed on the SBL. Until now, the SBL listings have resided on the Spamhaus Project website.
For a number of reasons this is about to change.
We have taken away all the current listing information from our main site www.
Spamhaus.org and moved them to a separate dedicated site.
While it may be familiar to many, and perhaps comfortingly so, it is in need of a revamp.
It makes sense to relocate the SBL listings to this tool.
This way, all IP and domain reputation information can be found in one place.
If your IP address also has listings on other datasets, such as the XBL Exploits blocklist, you can view these at the same time.
In exactly the same way you do now - Spamhaus Project researchers will email you an SBL listing notification email.
It will include a URL starting with https://check.
Spamhaus.org/ to view the SBL listing details on the Checker.
You can use the SBL ticket number to search for the listing in the Checker directly.
To go directly to the page, you can use the following URL format: check.
For senders who receive bounced email messages with an associated SBL listing, a URL is included to view more details.
This URL will also navigate to the Checker rather than The Spamhaus Project website.
The relocation of the SBL listings to the Spamhaus IP and Domain Reputation Checker is expected to take place in mid-February 2024.
This Cyber News was published on www.spamhaus.org. Publication date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 17:13:04 +0000