Email bomb

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 (DoS attack)^[3] or as a smoke screen to distract the attention from important email messages indicating a security breach.^[4]

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

[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.

[Bekerman-4] Dima Bekerman: How Registration Bots Concealed the Hacking of My Amazon Account, Application Security, Industry Perspective, December 1st 2016, In: amperva.com/blog

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