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- 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you ever wanted to take an inside view of targeted-botnets primarily run by novice cybercriminals sometimes utilizing outdated, but very effective methods - this ZDNet photo gallery is for you.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
- Top spamming domains: hotmail.com, yahoo.com, msn.com
- Top spamming domains: hotmail.com, yahoo.com, msn.comVictoriaI very bad know English,because I'm Russian, but I very want talk in English. Please, write me))))))))))) I Filly, interesting girl.I'm crazy about dance! :):):)I injoy asked you))))) sorry for my BAD language!!!!
- Tags: Spam, spamming domain, spamming
- Discussion threads 2008-11-03
- iPhone hits another security speedbump
- Apple's ongoing struggles with poor security-related design choices have extended to the iPhone. According to security researcher Aviv Raff, everyone's favorite mobile device is vulnerable to two separate security weaknesses that expose millions of users to phishing and spamming attacks. [...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Image, Spamming, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- News to know: Google; Text messaging; Spam; Microsoft
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Learning From The Train Wreck Of Text Messaging Garett Rogers: Google wants your Hotmail, Yahoo and AOL contacts Jason Perlow: Microsoft: It's...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Text Messaging, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Spamming, Spam, E-mail, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular Phones, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
- Spamming vendor launches managed spamming service
- Spamming vendor launches managed spamming serviceGo into a little more detail on MX and Ptr...records being defined. There will have to be a domain registered pointing to a start of authority. DNS servers query for the SOA. Then proceed to the SOA to get the DNS records you are referring...
- Tags: Spam, spamming, Spamming vendor launch, vendor launch, spamming service, e-mail server, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-09-14
- Spamming vendor launches managed spamming service
- A spamming vendor known as the SET-X Corporation, has recently launched the distributed SET-X Mail System, a sophisticated managed spamming service available for rent on a monthly basis starting from $2000, promising to achieve "spamming speed" of 5000 to 7000 emails per minute and over 1 million spam messages per...
- Tags: Malware, Server, Bot, Spamming, Spamming Service, SET-X Mail System, MX, Spam, E-mail, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-09-13
- Spamming Botnets: Signatures and Characteristics
- This paper focuses on characterizing spamming botnets by leveraging both spam payload and spam server traffic properties. Towards this goal, it developed a spam signature generation framework called AutoRE to detect botnet-based spam emails and botnet membership. AutoRE does not require pre-classified training data or white lists. Moreover, it outputs...
- Tags: Association For Computing Machinery, Regular Expression, Training, Spamming, E-mail, Spam, Workforce Management, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, Human Resources
- White papers 2008-08-22
- SpamZa - opt in spamming service fighting to remain online
- SpamZa - opt in spamming service fighting to remain onlineLooks like SpamZa is down now...[as of 6:30am PT]...with this message..."SpamZa is currently down because some host has less balls than it said it did. We are currently actively looking for a new host. We WILL be back. We never give...
- Tags: Spam, SpamZa, spamming
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- SpamZa - opt in spamming service fighting to remain online
- A recently launched unethical spam list building service called SpamZa, is fighting to remain online after providing highly successful (87 spam emails in 8 minutes) into fulfilling its objective, namely, to sign up any email submitted to hundreds of newsletters anonymously. What is SpamZa anyway? SpamZa is...
- Tags: Newsletter, Spam, Spamming, SpamZa, E-mail, Corporate Communications, Online Communications, Marketing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
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