April 12th, 2012 → 7:00 am @ Sue Walsh
Just over a year ago, a team of Microsoft security researchers and U.S. Marshalls did what some considered impossible. They took down Rustock, one of the largest botnets ever. At it’s peak it controlled over a million infected machines …
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Spam Still Struggling to Recover from Rustock Takedown
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April 10th, 2012 → 7:00 am @ Sue Walsh
Security researchers have discovered a new spam campaign that brandjacks US Airways. The messages look like official notifications from the airline and contain subject lines such as “Reservation Confirmation” and “Check-In Online”. They contain flight numbers, departure time and …
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April 6th, 2012 → 7:00 am @ Sue Walsh
The man behind the infamous Mega-D botnet is looking for a plea deal. Alleged “Spam King”, Oleg Nikolaenko was arrested in November of 2010 and pled not guilty last week. Federal prosecutors are looking for a 10 year prison sentence …
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Russian Spammer May Accept Plea Deal
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April 4th, 2012 → 8:20 am @ Sue Walsh
Several Tibetan activist organizations have been pummeled by spear phishing attacks. Security researchers have traced the origin of the attacks to China, which is not surprising. Tibet has been fighting for it’s independence from China for decades. The attacks arrived looking …
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Tibetan Activist Organisations Pummled By Spear Phishing Attacks
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March 30th, 2012 → 7:00 am @ Sue Walsh
Here’s a look at the top spam headlines for March: Commercial Spam Filters Getting Worse, Not Better: http://www.infoworld.com/t/anti-spam/report-spam-filters-are-getting-worse-189250 Canadian Businesses Worried About Anti-Spam Legislation: http://business.financialpost.com/2012/03/21/anti-spam-legislation-worries-businesses FCC Posts Voluntary Code of Conduct for ISPs In Bid to Fight Spam Spewing Botnets: …
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March 26th, 2012 → 7:00 am @ Sue Walsh
A new spam campaign is using fake DHL tracking notifications to deliver malware. The emails inform the recipient of a shipment that’s on the way to them and to check the attachment for details. In this zip file, there are two …
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DHL Brandjacked in New Malicious Spam Campaign
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March 21st, 2012 → 8:00 am @ Sue Walsh
As proof there is no honor among thieves (or hackers), the database of a message board that at one time was the uber-exclusive home of spammers and cybercriminals was turned over to a few security researchers. This came as the result …
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How the Zeus Trojan Author Does Business with Spammers
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March 19th, 2012 → 8:00 am @ Sue Walsh
GoDaddy.com, a popular and controversial domain registrar, has over a quarter of a million spam domains on a group of servers called SPAM-AND-ABUSE.com. This domain is non-resolving so the sites who have had their name servers pointed to it are …
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GoDaddy Corals Hundreds of Thousands of Spam Domains
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March 15th, 2012 → 8:00 am @ Sue Walsh
It started out as nothing particularly new. An Indian spammer sent out a email blast to thousands of people. It was written in a foreign language and was promoting an Indian website. It wound up in the inboxes of people …
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A Feel Good Spam Story – Really!
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March 12th, 2012 → 8:00 am @ Sue Walsh
A look at February’s spam reports shows that Valentine’s Day themed spam helped driveoverall spam volumes up to about 3 times higher than pre-Valentine’s Day volumes. This really isn’t surprising or unexpected. Holidays have always been peak times for spam …
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Valentines Day Spam Helped Increase Overall Spam Volumes For February
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