What’s in your daily slice of spam?
Just as the original spam – the tinned meat of 50 years ago – prompted people to wonder just what it contained, so too does the spam of the internet age. …
Fake warning about Olympic-themed scams carries malware
It’s three months to go until the start of the London Olympics 2012, and sports fans are searching for and buying tickets to the various events online. Unfortunately, …
India becomes top spamming country
“If you have a spam in your inbox, there’s an almost one in ten chance that it was relayed from an Indian computer,” says Sophos’ Graham Cluley. …
Highly compelling spam campaign delivers malware
A spam email campaign that may trick a lot of users opening the malicious attachment has been spotted by Sophos. Variations of “RE:Check the attachment you have to react …
Spam campaign combines phishing, malware and survey scams
An ongoing spam campaign characterized by brief subject lines and containing only a hyperlink rendered in a large font saying “Click here to see the attached …
Active fake AV spam campaigns hit Twitter
Two distinct malicious spam campaigns are currently targeting Twitter users and taking them to compromised sites serving rogue AV and scareware software, warns GFI. The …
HSBC customers under phishing attack
Customers of HSBC, one of the largest banking and financial services organizations in the world, are currently being targeted with a fake warning of account suspension: The …
Instagram users targeted with spam
It’s almost a given that any social service, network or app that attracts a large number of users will eventually be facing the spam and scam problem. It happened to …
Sustained drop in spam levels
Industry and government efforts have dealt a significant blow to spam, according to a Commtouch report that is compiled based on an analysis of more than 10 billion …
Fake US Airways emails lead to Zeus variant
A US Airways-themed spam campaign aiming at infecting users with a variant of the Zeus banking Trojan has been hitting inboxes for the last two weeks, says Kaspersky Lab …
Scammers advertise Pinterest bots on Facebook
Internet scammers have launched a paid advertising campaign on Facebook targeting Pinterest fans, bringing the hunt for victims to a higher level of investment and …
Surge in mobile exploits and shell command injection attacks
IBM released the results of its X-Force 2011 Trend and Risk Report which shows surprising improvements in several areas of Internet security such as a reduction in application …
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