Recent increase in spam through iCloud?

For many years my emails received through Apple Mail via iCloud have been virtually spam-free. I put this down to excellent filtering by Apple and my own care. Although my domain name is public and used on my web site, I use a different name in front of the @ for each organisation I deal with: [email protected] or [email protected] etc. The aim here was to limit damage should one of these emails leak out. About once a month I would get a spam email. At first I wondered whether the organisation had leaked it, but I now believe spammers are random-guessing strings in front of a known domain.
In the last couple of months I have seen a huge increase in the spam reaching me - many per day, all addressed to a random selection of my hundreds of email addresses. I still think these are spammers hitting it lucky with randomly generated strings in front of my domain name. But why the sudden increase? Has Apple's anti-spam team fallen asleep on the job?
I used to forward spam to [email protected] but I have given up on that. I read somewhere that marking a message as spam (well Junk actually) was sufficient for Apple to take note. Is that sufficient?
There used to be an option in Apple Mail to bounce an email. That went a while back. Without any bounce option, spammers may be able to deduce an address is valid by the lack of a bounce.
Any comments or advice welcomed.

If the spam is coming to your domain email there's nothing that Apple can do as it comes directly from your hosting service mail servers to your Mac. Contact your website hosting service regarding filters.
Apple can only help if your email address ends in iCloud.com, mac.com or me.com.

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