MainSleaze

AthenaSecurity.net, a domain owned by Lisle Technology Partners, LLC, of Lombard, IL, is spamming. The address involved has not been given to anybody for inclusion on a mailing list, and it doesn’t appear in any web resources either. The mail doesn’t contain any hints as to where the address was obtained, why, and how. I wonder if this qualifies as mainsleaze or just the garden variety of spam.

Spamming IP: 168.93.77.75

Spam headers:

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Human-readable spam content:

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