It seems like the Phishing crews at trying to get some new ideas on how to con people into giving away their credentials and leaking info.
The latest target appears to be Google Calendar.
As always be on your guard as these scams are coming from all directions.

A few months ago, spam came to Google Calendar. Now [...]

You might remember a while ago we mentioned MP3 spam, which in October last year was the latest evolution in spam.
Currently there is a new type annoying mail-server owners the world over, it’s known as NDR or Backscatter Spam and involved NDRs or Non Delivery Reports (those emails you get when you send a mail [...]

It makes sense, spammers will follow whatever is popular, wherever the social mass is at and reading they will bombard.
In the earlier days Myspace was a big target, now they are moving on to other sites such as Facebook. Social networking sites are an ideal place for spammers as they can exploit the trust between [...]

It seems like spammers are now moving to automated spam via popular web mail services as a way to bypass IP-blacklisting services.
It’s a large advantage for them as they can still use botnet sources to generate the e-mail but the source IP address will be from a ‘trusted’ domain such as Gmail or Yahoo!.

The growing [...]

Another tale to do with advertising, it just goes to show it’s really not a good idea to run JavaScript from a 3rd party source on your site, especially if you don’t want your visitors redirected to a porn site!
This is just what happened to Perl.com a few days ago.

Visitors to Perl.com, the O’Reilly Media-owned [...]

Ah so Mr Alan Ralsky one of the biggest spammers of all-time is back in the news after his indictment with 10 others for running a large scale spam operation intended to inflate stocks artificially.
At one time it was thought Mr Ralsky and his friends were responsible for the majority of the spam sent, he’s [...]

A new generation of phishing attacks is being studied jointly by Google and Georgia Institute of Technology, it seems the bad guys are getting some smarter ideas.
They are using Open Recursive DNS servers to poison DNS queries and return false information, thus luring consumers to even more realistic phishing domains.

Researchers at Google and the Georgia [...]

If you remember a while back we mentioned PDF & Image Attachment Spam - The New Problem with E-mail, now we have another ‘innovation’ in spamming..
MP3 spam!
It seems they are using it for the same old pump and dump tactics (Microcap stock fraud) to artificially inflate stock prices then sell out fast.

Spammers are back with [...]

I have noticed an increase in Spam activity lately, especially in Spam blog comments there has been a noticeable surge in the frequency and number.
That’s why we’ve implemented stricter measures against spammers on Darknet and our other sites.
It seems there has been a big raise in the number of bot infected systems, so it’s suggested [...]

As always, spam filters get better and smarter, but so do spammers..and frankly spammers have more to gain by beating the spam filters so they always work harder and think in more innovative ways.
As they get their spam resembling real emails more and more, the spam filters become less accurate.
On top of that they start [...]