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- Scareware scammers hijack Twitter trending topics
- Researchers from F-Secure and Sophos are reporting on an ongoing scareware serving campaign abusing the popular micro-blogging service Twitter. Hundreds of tweets using four different URL shortening services are currently spammed through the automatically registered Twitter accounts, relying on a pseudo-random text generation using Twitter's trending topics....
- Tags: Twitter Inc., Spamming, Spam, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-09-23
- Cutwail botnet spamming 'IRS unreported income' themed malware
- Additional URL used in similar emailshttp://www.irs.gov.mdtsrv.me/fraud_application/directory/statement.php?email=emailaddress&tid=supposed-taxpayer-IDThis one was just received today (9/16)
- Tags: spamming, Internal Revenue Service, income, malware
- Discussion threads 2009-09-16
- Cutwail botnet spamming 'IRS unreported income' themed malware
- Researchers from MX Logic -- now part of McAfee -- have intercepted a new malware campaign spammed by the Pushdo/Cutwail botnet, that's using an 'IRS unreported income' notices in an attempt to trick the recipients into downloading a tax-statement.exe executable. The Pushdo/Cutwail botnet remains among the most...
- Tags: Income, Malware, Internal Revenue Service, Spamming, Spam, E-mail, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
- Bad ethics in the wild: Twitter spamming and site stealing
- Interesting......a guy who has no problem violating copyrights complaining about a lack of ethics.Carl RapsonSPAM on Twitter!!! Say it isn't so!!Why is this worthy of a ZDNET blog entry. Is your next entry going to be about how you hate to get those EMail's that say "You've Won $15,000,000" or...
- Tags: Spam, E-mail, Twitter Inc., Twitter spamming, BAD ETHICS, spamming
- Discussion threads 2009-09-02
- Bad ethics in the wild: Twitter spamming and site stealing
- Two of the main things that gripe me are new sites which rip off the idea from a more popular one, and Twitter spamming with sneaky, human-like messages. I thought it was about time to name and shame. Article by Zack Whittaker
- Tags: Twitter Inc., Ethics, Spamming, Spam, Business Ethics, Security, Spam And Phishing, Leadership, Management, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- Campaign Monitor hacked, accounts used for spamming
- I guess they shouldn't have switched from Windows to Linux!http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.campaignmonitor.comYou [b]know[/b] that if netcraft showed the reverse years of Apache usage followed by a recent switch to IIS that this blog would be full of comments about how they shouldn't have switched to Windows!Cue the double standards...Except that's not what...
- Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, spamming
- Discussion threads 2009-08-11
- Campaign Monitor hacked, accounts used for spamming
- E-mail marketing software developer Campaign Monitor warned users today of a server compromise that took place during the weekend. The compromise allowed the attackers to gain access to customer accounts, which they abused by importing their own lists of harvested emails in order to launch spam campaigns...
- Tags: Monitor, Spammer, Spamming, Attack, E-mail, Spam, Servers, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, Hardware, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- NUMBERCOP Blocker US (Mobile)
- GETTING SPAM CALLS? NUMBERCOP tracks thousands of Telemarketers and automatically blocks spam numbers before they bother you. With NUMBERCOP you can avoid phone scams, phishing calls and unwanted robo-calls, even if they have never called you before. The NUMBERCOP Phone Spam Blocker application manages a black list number database directly...
- Tags: Phone, Mobile, Spamming, NUMBERCOP LLC, Spam Number, NUMBERCOP Phone Spam Blocker Application, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing
- Software downloads 2009-06-25
- Attachment Spam - The Latest Trend: Spammers Using Common File Formats as Attachments for Pump and-Dump Scams
- This white paper explains what makes spam such an unbearable problem and how spamming tactics are evolving daily to beat anti-spam software. In the space of two months, spammers have switched from image spam to using PDF, Excel and ZIP file attachments. By using these attachments to send images instead...
- Tags: Spammer, GFI Software Ltd., Spamming, Spam, Cyberthreats, Security, Spam And Phishing
- White papers 2009-06-05
- On Twitter: Difference between spam and noise
- Last week at 140 | Twitter Conference I attended a panel on Twitter strategies and real-world case studies. Overall it was a solid panel with some talented speakers (Jeff Pester, Bryan Rhoads, Warren Whitlock, etc). Unfortunately, amid the good stuff, there was one not-so-little thing that made me twitch: the...
- Tags: Spamming, Twitter, Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
- Email service provider: 'Hack into our CEO's email, win $10k'
- A newly launched startup called StrongWebMail is aiming to add a new layer of secure authentication for its customers - phone verification prior to logging in and alert services for potential email compromises. The company is in fact so confident in its approach that it's currently offering...
- Tags: Phone, Password, Spamming, Feature, Computer, CEO, Dancho, E-mail, Telecom & Utilities, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-06-02
- Numbercop Phone Spam Tracker 1.31 (Mobile)
- Report them at NUMBERCOP. Similar to Antivirus research, we track more than 10.000 spamming phone numbers in multiple countries. Phone numbers you definitely don't want to pick up, call back or text to. With NUMBERCOP's Phone Spam Tracker App you know who is calling: SEARCH unknown numbers and see if...
- Tags: Phone, Mobile, Spamming, NUMBERCOP, Telecom & Utilities
- Software downloads 2009-05-28
- Inside the botnets that never make the news - a gallery
- If you ever wanted to take an inside view of targeted-botnets primarily run by novice cybercriminals sometimes utilizing outdated, but very effective methods - this ZDNet photo gallery is for you. It offers an inside view of those "beneath the radar" botnets that never make the news....
- Tags: Spamming, Cybercriminal, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-05-20
- Spamcraft: An Inside Look at Spam Campaign Orchestration
- This paper has presented a detailed study of spam campaign orchestration as observed in the wild. Their investigation was enabled by a long-term infiltration of the Storm botnet, comprising both passive probing and active manipulation of the botnet's C&C traffic. Their study includes over 800,000 spam templates, more than 3...
- Tags: Anti-spam, Spamming, E-mail Address, University Of California, Spam, E-mail, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications
- White papers 2009-04-24
- Waledac botnet spamming fake SMS spying tool
- Waledac is once again using its well proven social engineering tactics by introducing a "fake SMS spying tool" (free.exe; smstrap.exe; install.exe; setup.exe etc.) and Online Casinos theme, in an attempt to further expand the botnet. No client-side vulnerabilities are used for the time being, instead the cybercriminals...
- Tags: Phone, SMS, Spamming, Cybercriminal, Tool, Waledac, Bredolab, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-04-17
- Google: Spam volume for Q1 back to pre-McColo levels
- It took only a couple of months for cybercriminals to catch-up and reintroduce the massive spam volumes that briefly disappeared following the shutdown of the cybercrime ecosystem's sitting duck McColo in November, 2008. According to Google's Postini Spam data and trends for Q1 2009, during the first...
- Tags: Google Inc., Spammer, Spamming, Spam Volume, Spam, Cyberthreats, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-04-02
- Commercial Twitter spamming tool hits the market
- Commercial Twitter spamming tool hits the marketIs this English?"I ?wonder? why is the originally blurred by the author Twitter account used in the proof..." RE: Commercial Twitter spamming tool hits the marketThanks for posting this info. That's a nasty piece of software. I hope Twitter will now require legit email...
- Tags: Spam, E-mail, Twitter, spamming tool, spamming
- Discussion threads 2009-02-04
- Commercial Twitter spamming tool hits the market
- Last week, a commercial Twitter spamming tool (tweettornado.com) pitching itself as a "fully automated advertising software for Twitter" hit the market, potentially empowering phishers, spammers, malware authors and everyone in between with the ability to generate bogus Twitter accounts and spread their campaigns across the micro-blogging service. ...
- Tags: Spamming, Twitter, Tool, TweetTornado, Productivity, E-mail, Spam, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-02-04
- How much governing power do online supporters give Obama?
- A new study finds Obama election supporters are eager to use the Net to push the new president's agenda forward. But can anyone really control 13 million independent-minded voters? by Richard Koman
- Tags: Aide, Cabinet, Phone, Phone Line, Spamming, Obama, Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-12-30
- Thwarting E-mail Spam Laundering
- Laundering e-mail spam through open-proxies or compromised PCs is a widely-used trick to conceal real spam sources and reduce spamming cost in the underground e-mail spam industry. Spammers have plagued the Internet by exploiting a large number of spam proxies. The facility of breaking spam laundering and deterring spamming activities...
- Tags: E-mail Spam, Spamming, Spam, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications
- White papers 2008-12-01
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