Inside Spammers Selling Unauthorized "ISC West" Lists
Literally every day, IPVM receives solicitations for "ISC West lists" from various random Gmail accounts, prompting the question who are these people and what are they doing?
RX / Reed, the owner of ISC West made it clear that none of these are authorized.
Inside this note, we examine our exchanges with the spammers and their backgrounds.
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