Mal-spam (or perhaps malspam) describes all forms of malicious spam sent with malicious intent. Mal-spam includes: phishing, spear-phishing, whaling, baiting, pretexting, among others.
- Payloads can include: Malicious attachments, links to malicious web pages, enticements to perform transactions, ransomware, key loggers, etc.
- Bad things that can happen: man-in-the-middle attacks (woman-in-the-middle attacks too), network compromise, zombie botnets, insertion of zero-day exploits, viruses, trojan horses, rootkits, backdoors, job scams and other scams and code with malicious intent.
- Mal-spam can be hard to spot due to: Sender address spoofing, content that replicates legitimate senders, etc.
- Payloads can include: Malicious attachments, links to malicious web pages, enticements to perform transactions, ransomware, key loggers, etc.
- Bad things that can happen: man-in-the-middle attacks (woman-in-the-middle attacks too), network compromise, zombie botnets, insertion of zero-day exploits, viruses, trojan horses, rootkits, backdoors, job scams and other scams and code with malicious intent.
- Mal-spam can be hard to spot due to: Sender address spoofing, content that replicates legitimate senders, etc.
Be especially careful to avoid mal-spam, it can really mess up your day. Better off to just delete it. Certainly don't click any links or open attachments.
by PooderHound January 30, 2019
Get the mal-spammug. Random and obnoxious emails advertising penis enlargements that begin showing up in your inbox after visiting a porn site you knew you shouldn't have. Hard to filter because they were sent from an absurd address from a country with an abbreviation you never heard of before. Require awkward explanations to anyone looking over your shoulder while you check your email.
Girlfriend: What's that email about?
Guy: uh, just some stupid cock spam that I keep getting after I downloaded this thing for a project at work.
Guy: uh, just some stupid cock spam that I keep getting after I downloaded this thing for a project at work.
by Cashbar May 13, 2015
Get the cock spammug. Emotional Spam, or e-spam, are e-mails without any relevant information, designed to propagate silly emotional messages, usualy to many people at once. Also known as Non-Profit Spam, or NPS
by bunytou February 18, 2011
Get the e-spammug. A whining knobhead who joins an internet discussion forum and then whines about how vindictive the moderators are.
by MiddleAgedDirtBag February 8, 2008
Get the spam channelmug. Joe (calling John): Hey bro I'm in a fight, can you spam D for me and send?
John: Yeah sure, spamming D and sending.
John: Yeah sure, spamming D and sending.
by yeetfish8 January 13, 2022
Get the Spam Dmug. by langer03 November 9, 2018
Get the Spam boxmug. A vagina picture; The equivalent of the male "dick-pic" often used to entice the intended reciever but is actually unsolicited
by Palomanoma October 12, 2016
Get the Clam spammug.