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. A person that gains confidence behind their PC or Cellphone and says things they would normally not say face to face in the real world.
This Internet Troll is talking mad spicey from the comfort of his own home. I guess he grew Spam Balls overnight.
by msscream1234 May 7, 2018
Get the Spam Ballsmug. All that space-taking crap you find on tables at restaurants--extra drink menus, desert menus, weekly specials menus, Direct TV ads. . .
by SaladFork May 13, 2013
Get the Table Spammug. a term for a dipshit asshole that cannot contribute anything to society and instead spends every hour of every day behind that fucking computer screen spamming random nonsense instead of getting a life
by soupmaster 69 July 3, 2020
Get the spam bearmug. Using twitter to not tweet original thought, but to re-tweet someone else's original thought. Usually involves one individual re-tweeting many others posts.
by Deadly Smurf January 13, 2011
Get the twit-spammug. by Dave Angel eco warrior January 24, 2021
Get the Spam swingersmug. by Todd__V November 8, 2022
Get the Peach and Spammug.