spam

In the last couple of days, Twitter users have been inundated with a variety of scams. They are likely the direct consequence of the recent phishing attempts posing as fake …

A particularly malicious spam run consisting of emails ostensibly sent by reception desk managers of various hotels has been targeting Visa users. The emails exhibit subject …

Web applications, on average, experience twenty seven attacks per hour, or roughly one attack every two minutes, according to Imperva. They observed and categorized attacks …

Microsoft has decided to introduce two new security features for its web-based Hotmail service, in the hope that this will make the accounts more difficult to hijack and …

A malicious email purportedly coming from the New York State Police is currently doing the rounds of inboxes and trying to scare people into opening and running the attached …

The Washington Post Jobs web site was breached and roughly 1.27 million user IDs and e-mail addresses were impacted by the hack. The attacks occurred on June 27th and 28th. As …

In the complex and ever-changing landscape of online crime, cybercriminals have made a fundamental shift in strategy, abandoning traditional mass spam attacks in favor of …

Spam emails seemingly coming from a credit card company have been hitting inboxes and trying to scare users into downloading and running the attached malicious file: According …

The volume of spam in email traffic increased 2.1 per cent in May, when compared with the previous month, making up on average 80.8 per cent of the total. A reduction of …

No stone is left unturned, no option unexplored when it comes to online spamming, and the latest approach has shown that malware authors are not the only ones who have taken …

A rather poorly executed but extensive spam campaign impersonating the US Federal Reserve is currently targeting online banking users. The email, using graphics hosted by the …

Spam campaigns offering free stuff are usually rather effective, and the latest one touting a free breakfast at McDonald’s on the 27th of June is likely to reel in many …