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 …
Google educates Gmail users on spam
Educating computer users about security is something that every online service should consider doing, and I’m glad to see that Google has started explaining why its …
US govt and military email addresses offered for sale
Cyber crooks are very well aware that information is a very lucrative commodity and that every type of information has potential buyers. Take email addresses, for example. …
Fake LinkedIn emails serve malware
Emails purportedly coming from business-related social network LinkedIn have been hitting inboxes in the last couple of days, ostensibly reminding recipients of invitations …
Demonstrators targeted with destructive malware
A spam campaign carrying an unusual payload has been recently spotted targeting Russian users that are not satisfied with Vladimir Putin becoming once again the President of …
“Google Pharmacy” spam hitting inboxes
Google’s name and reputation is once again being misused by spammers trying to trick users into believing that what they are selling is endorsed or approved by the …
Visa pressures banks into closing spammers’ accounts
When computer science professor Stefan Savage and his team of researchers unveiled their analysis of the spam monetization model last year, they described 15 steps required …
Bogus US SEC notification leads to malware
Notifications purportedly sent by the US Securities and Exchange Commission have been hitting inboxes and trying to trick users into following a malicious link, warns GFI. The …
40% of UK businesses breached due to spam
Businesses are still struggling to deal with the problems caused by spam, and nearly half of them have experienced a data breach as a result of employees clicking on malicious …