Re: Question about AI generated spam and prompts

Andrew H <[email protected]> Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:56:35 +0100
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Hi Jared,

Some of these rules may be useful to us - but it looks like CLOUDSPLOIT.cf
is missing a bunch of meta dependencies.

eg:

meta T_JR_CSPLOIT_BAD_URL references __JR_CSPLOIT_AMAZONAWS  but the rule
should be __JR_CSPLOIT_URL_AMAZONAWS


Andrew.


On Sun, 31 May 2026 at 03:20, Jared Hall via users <
[email protected]> wrote:

> You can check out:
> https://jaredsec.com/antispam/downloads
>
> You'd be interested in the file: NILS.cf.gz.
>
> Brief introduction to these rulesets:
> https://jaredsec.com/antispam/
>
>
> Regards,
>
> -- Jared Hall
>
>
> On 5/30/2026 12:07 AM, Tom Williams via users wrote:
>
> Hi!  A friend of mine is getting hammered with Costco, AAA, Lowe's and
> similar spam.  I don't know how they got her email address, but she's
> getting flooded.  Her email account is on a shared hosting platform
> (Hostgator) and while Spamassassin is installed and configured, it's
> blocking only so much of this.
>
> Anyway, I'm writing because tonight, she started getting messages that
> contain the text of a prompt for an AI engine to generate the spam email.
> lol
>
> My questions:
>
>    1. Is having access to the prompt text useful in helping Spamassassin
>    detect and filter out AI generated spam?
>    2. Would it be worthwhile to create any kind of rule to look for the
>    prompt text to help in filtering out the messages?
>
> I have a few samples of these if anyone is interested.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Peace...
>
> Tom
>
>
>

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div>Hi Jared,</div><div><br></div><div>Some of these rule=
s may be useful to us - but it looks like=C2=A0CLOUDSPLOIT.cf is missing a =
bunch of meta dependencies.</div><div><br></div><div>eg:</div><div><br></di=
v><div>meta	T_JR_CSPLOIT_BAD_URL references=C2=A0__JR_CSPLOIT_AMAZONAWS=C2=
=A0 but the rule should be=C2=A0__JR_CSPLOIT_URL_AMAZONAWS</div><div><br></=
div><div><br></div><div>Andrew.</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class=3D=
"gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">O=
n Sun, 31 May 2026 at 03:20, Jared Hall via users &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:use=
[email protected]">[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:<br=
></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;=
border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>

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  <div>
    You can check out:<br>
    <a href=3D"https://jaredsec.com/antispam/downloads" target=3D"_blank">h=
ttps://jaredsec.com/antispam/downloads</a><br>
    <br>
    You&#39;d be interested in the file: NILS.cf.gz.<br>
    <br>
    Brief introduction to these rulesets:<br>
    <a href=3D"https://jaredsec.com/antispam/" target=3D"_blank">https://ja=
redsec.com/antispam/</a><br>
    <br>
    <br>
    Regards,<br>
    <br>
    <pre cols=3D"72">-- Jared Hall
</pre>
    <br>
    <div>On 5/30/2026 12:07 AM, Tom Williams via
      users wrote:<br>
    </div>
    <blockquote type=3D"cite">
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      <p>Hi!=C2=A0 A friend of mine is getting hammered with Costco, AAA,
        Lowe&#39;s and similar spam.=C2=A0 I don&#39;t know how they got he=
r email
        address, but she&#39;s getting flooded.=C2=A0 Her email account is =
on a
        shared hosting platform (Hostgator) and while Spamassassin is
        installed and configured, it&#39;s blocking only so much of this.=
=C2=A0=C2=A0</p>
      <p>Anyway, I&#39;m writing because tonight, she started getting
        messages that contain the text of a prompt for an AI engine to
        generate the spam email.=C2=A0 lol</p>
      <p>My questions:</p>
      <ol>
        <li>Is having access to the prompt text useful in helping
          Spamassassin detect and filter out AI generated spam?</li>
        <li>Would it be worthwhile to create any kind of rule to look
          for the prompt text to help in filtering out the messages?</li>
      </ol>
      <p>I have a few samples of these if anyone is interested.</p>
      <p>Thanks in advance!</p>
      <p>Peace...</p>
      <p>Tom</p>
      <u></u><u></u>
    </blockquote>
    <br>
  </div>

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