Explosion of spam on iCloud mail

I am getting enormous amounts of spam on my mac.com account during the last few weeks. Today at 6pm the total is 13 already. I have been able to set junk mail rules in icloud mail so that most of then are caught, but I do not understand why Apple is not taking action.
I have another (non-apple) acoount that is about 25 years old by now, with similar problems occurring many years ago. Mail of that kind never gets through. My provider has a spam filter that works.
The spam I am getting now has a few things in common. It is all from US companies, with addresses listed in their mails, and an unsubscribe link (which I refuse to use). They use sender addresses like [email protected] (with arbitrary garbage before the @). A week ago I got lost of mails from similar companies from the address [email protected]
All of this is easy to filter out, but of course these criminals (the only correct way to decribe these people) will think of something else every week.
My main question: What can I do???
I have sent many of these mails to [email protected], but this seems to have no effect.
Why does Apple not use its massive legal department to go after these criminals? If they are "legitimate" companies, with addresses, they can be sued, right? Is there anything in US law that makes unsollicited advertisement with an unsubscribe like legitimate?

I am receiving at least 20-30 spam emails a day on my iCloud account from domains like that one.
Here are a few:
[email protected]
*@gil.com.au
*@esa.icsg-cloud.com
*@sdgveDt8.mac.com
*@createfreewebsite.org
*@gradehone.com
*@facteur.louisiana.edu
*@Wikipedia-K5P.org
I have turned off remote images loading and emailed spam@icloud every time I have received them, but to no avail.
It is getting ridiculous Apple does not have a usable email system with a good spam detection (like Gmail does). I'm going to have to stop using my Apple account because this is getting out of hand.

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