Bogus airline charge leads to Zeus Trojan

A recent spam campaign is targeting frequent users of a popular German airline carrier, baiting them with a exorbitant bogus fee that has apparently been charged to their …

Waledac botnet wakes up after 7 days of sleep

Waledac appeared in a new version in the last days of 2010, sending out big amounts of New Year related spam messages. It then stopped spamming in the evening of January 4th, …

Spam increases 45% this week

Spam levels started bouncing back this week after a significant decrease in the fourth quarter. December’s daily average for spam was around 30% less than in September; …

USA number one as spam becomes more malicious

Sophos has published the latest ‘Dirty Dozen’ of spam relaying countries, covering the fourth quarter of 2010. The United States increased its lead at the top …

Spam moving to social networks and mobile

Following the recent news on global spam levels falling, Jamie Tomasello, Abuse Operations Manager at Cloudmark, outlines her thoughts on why spammers are moving from email to …

Is Google losing its fight against spam?

Once upon a time, Google was unequivocally the best and the most popular search engine in the world. Ranking pages by how they were interconnected (linked) to other sites, …

The significant decline of spam

In October Commtouch reported an 18% drop in global spam levels (comparing September and October). This was largely attributed to the closure of Spamit around the end of …

Man makes career out of suing e-mail spammers

There may be a lot people who thought about it, but there is one who decided to actually do it – Daniel Balsam from San Francisco quit his job and started his new …