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It puzzles me that all these spam/fishing operations are being uncovered by an accident and there's no proactive private or nonprofit organizations pursuing these criminals.

Overall our current state of (an average user) security can be described as Swiss cheese where anyone with malicious intent can poke a hole and use it without any repercussions.

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There are people who do this. ShadowServer comes to mind. A number of large companies (Google, Microsoft, ISPs, etc.) run anti-spam operations.

It's harder than you might expect to do effectively.

But is there an international interpol-style/black helicopters operation against such types. If there's one class of people I'd be glad to see have their human rights trampled, it would be spammers.

Or you know, we could uphold the rule of law and punish rule breakers within the framework we already have.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Frog used to do it too.

There must be more, but Cisco TALOS pursues the botnets used to distribute spam.

E.g. http://blog.talosintelligence.com/2016/09/the-rising-tides-o...

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