If your infrastructure is actively sending abusive mail, stop or restrict the affected account, credential, application or relay path according to your incident process.

Then determine:

  • which identity was compromised;
  • when sending began;
  • recipients/volume;
  • source IP or application;
  • authentication method;
  • whether other credentials were exposed.

Reset or revoke affected credentials/tokens, remove persistence and fix the initial access.

Only after containment should you focus on blocklist/reputation recovery. Otherwise the abuse simply continues while you request delisting.

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