The email bomb buries an important email sent to the victim from an online shopping site or a financial institution confirming a recent transaction or changes to their account. The onslaught of messages is just a distraction to hide the criminal’s true intentions. This simultaneously generates thousands of emails immediately to the victim’s inbox. Once this is done, the cybercriminal will enter the email account of the victim, and have bots register the victim's vulnerable pages and forms. The attacker uses automated bots to scour the web for newsletter sign-up pages or web forms that don’t require live-user authentication. In some cases, the messages received are nonsensical in subject and content, but most often the emails are from legitimate electronic newsletters and mailing subscriptions. In a very short time, that mailbox becomes unusable as the victim struggles to make sense of why this sudden avalanche of messages has appeared. How does it work?ĭuring an attack, a victim is blasted with an innumerable amount of emails that rapidly fill up their inbox. Have you heard of “email bombing”? Email bombing is a tactic used by cybercriminals to distract your attention while they make a fraudulent purchase or financial transaction with an account that has been compromised.
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