Email bomb

This article is about denial-of-service attacks. For spikes of "reply all" messages on an email distribution list, see email storm.

On Internet usage, an email bomb is a form of net abuse that sends large volumes of email to an address to overflow the mailbox,[1][2] overwhelm the server where the email address is hosted in a denial-of-service attack[3] or as a smoke screen to distract the attention from important email messages indicating a security breach.[4]

  1. ^ Silverbug. "10 Types Of Cyber Crimes... And Another 10 You've Never Heard Of". www.silverbug.it. Retrieved 2019-04-25.
  2. ^ "The Return of Email Flooding". Dark Reading. 29 November 2018. Retrieved 2019-04-25.
  3. ^ "Email Bombing and ways to protect yourself". The Windows Club. 2017-05-04. Retrieved 2019-04-25.
  4. ^ Dima Bekerman: How Registration Bots Concealed the Hacking of My Amazon Account, Application Security, Industry Perspective, December 1st 2016, In: amperva.com/blog