State of security: malicious sites, CryptoLocker copycats, email scams
AppRiver released its mid-year Global Security Report, a detailed analysis of web and email-borne threats and malware trends tracked between January and June 2014. During the …
Spammers are always thinking up new tricks
The percentage of spam in email traffic in May averaged 69.8 per cent – 1.3 percentage points less than the previous month. May saw numerous mass mailings for schools …
Spammers increasingly targeting Montreal
AdaptiveMobile released data that shows a marked increase in SMS spam across Canada in the past six months. The higher volume of SMS spam comes on the eve of the July 1st …
There’s a new banking Trojan in town
A new piece of banking malware is being delivered via tax- and invoice-themed phishing campaigns, Danish security company CSIS is warning. Dubbed “Dyreza,” the …
Most comment spam traffic is generated by 28% of attackers
Imperva released its June Hacker Intelligence Initiative report, which presents an in-depth study of how a relatively small number of attack sources are responsible for the …
Relations between spam landscape actors can be leveraged for detection
Since late 2012, a group of researchers from UC Santa Barbara and RWTH Aachen University has been working on finding out the relations that exist between the different actors …
Dissecting April’s malicious spam
Malicious attachments in April came disguised as e-greetings and notifications about faxes. In the case of the former, alleged Easter greetings turned out to be the …
Why Google prefers numeric CAPTCHAs
Alphanumeric CAPTCHAs – those more or less difficult-to-read combinations that are used by many online services to discern whether a user is human or a bot – have …
The prime target for malicious emails
In the first quarter of 2014 spammers started imitating messages from mobile applications. They especially like the popular mobile messengers – WhatsApp, Viber and …
AOL breach confirmed, bigger than initially thought
Recent spam emails apparently sent from AOL email addresses and hawking diet products are a direct consequence of a breach of the company’s networks and systems, AOL has …
Weight loss spam storm hits Twitter, users beware!
Weight loss spam is once again being massively spewed out from compromised Twitter accounts, but the question on everyone’s mind is how the accounts got commandeered by …
Dangerous spam targets Brits with fake Easter offers
Cybercriminals are hiding dangerous goodies among the Easter eggs and chocolate bunnies that Brits are hoping for this Easter. A large amount of religious scams have also been …
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