October 29th, 2010 → 9:31 pm @ Sue Walsh
The infamous phishing gang known as Avalanche has turned to the Zeus botnet to help boost their profits and diversify their activities. Experts say the cybercriminal gang, who last year were responsible for two-thirds of the world’s phishing attacks, has moved beyond just sending phishing emails to using Zeus to hijack browsers and conduct man-in-the-browser [...]
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Infamous Phishing Gang Uses Botnet to Boost Profits
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October 22nd, 2010 → 7:36 am @ Sue Walsh
An Arizona man is facing 5 years in prison after pleading guilty to being the mastermind in a pump and dump spam scheme. James Bragg admitted to using a Russian botnet to send spam and hack into brokerage accounts to buy penny stocks without the account owner’s knowledge. Prosecutors say Bragg was responsible for running the [...]
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Arizona Man Pleads Guilty in Pump and Dump Spam Scheme
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October 20th, 2010 → 8:37 am @ Sue Walsh
The infamous Zeus Trojan is back and now being spread through a new tax spam campaign. The spam messages attempt to exploit the recent October 15th tax filing deadline for taxpayers who requested an extension.
With subject lines like “LAST NOTICE: Your Federal Tax Payment has been rejected in system” or “Your Tax Payment ID: 0103778341 [...]
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Zeus Spreading Through New Tax Spam
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October 18th, 2010 → 7:21 am @ Sue Walsh
Award-winning actress Scarlett Johansson has landed in the middle of a bizarre spam campaign. The messages, which are poorly written and obviously the work of a spammer who isn’t a native English speaker, ramble on about how the actress is actually a clone of a woman in Germany whose “biological material” was stolen. Here’s an [...]
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October 15th, 2010 → 6:13 am @ Sue Walsh
The spammer who was ordered to pay Facebook over $800 million in damages two years ago refused to pay and let the case go to his local court in Quebec, Canada for enforcement. That court ruled yesterday that Adam Guerbuez must pay the $873 million that was awarded to the social networking site after they [...]
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Canadian Court Upholds Facebook Spammer’s Verdict
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October 11th, 2010 → 6:04 am @ Sue Walsh
According to an article on SecureComputing, spammers are scooping up Russian domains at an alarming rate. So far over 6000 spam domains have been registered. Two domain registrars, Naunet and Reg.ru (also known as NAUNET-REG-RIPN and REGRU-REG-RIPN) are responsible for hosting most of them. Both Naunet and Reg.ru are notorious for their refusal to respond [...]
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Spammers Snap Up 6000+ Russian Domains
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October 8th, 2010 → 12:43 am @ Sue Walsh
Here’s a look at the top three email threats for August. These are spam campaigns that delivered malware through attachments claiming to be documents or photos.
Resume – The messages pumped out by this spam campaign look like they are from someone the recipient sent a resume to and tells them an edited and cleaned up [...]
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October 4th, 2010 → 7:43 am @ Sue Walsh
There’s an interesting article in PCWorld about spam and online retailers. According to spam research firm Spam Reports, more than half of all online retailers send unsolicited emails to their customers. That is, emails they haven’t opted into receiving. What’s more, 44% of retailers opt in their customers automatically. This is especially true of UK [...]
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Online Retailers Are Spammers Too
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October 1st, 2010 → 6:21 am @ Sue Walsh
Spam is everywhere and it’s not going anywhere, but you can keep it out of your company’s inboxes by following a few simple rules:
Don’t use one address for everything. If you need to have your email address posted on a website, advertisement, or other public place, use one specifically designed for that purpose. Doing so [...]
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September 29th, 2010 → 5:43 am @ Sue Walsh
Security experts are warning about a new plug and play spam campaign. The spam messages masquerade as notices from popular sites like Facebook, Wordpress, Amazon and Ebay. Once the link or attachment in them is clicked, the user’s browser is taken over and directed to a malicious site that attempts to download malware via an [...]
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