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 [...]

It seems common in most things, and it’s the same in infosec and especially malware, phishing and spam.
The majority of malware, phishing attacks and spam mails are coming from the same few sources, I’d say it’s a case of 80/20.
20% of the people are sending 80% of the messages, one of the big groups is [...]

The battle is heating up between the spammers e360 and the anti-spam warlords Spamhaus, some say the Internet may meltdown if Spamhaus stops its service..
Some estimates say 80% of spam is stopped by Spamhaus and e-mail could suddenly shoot to a server melting rate if their service is pulled.

The legal battle between antispam organisation Spamhaus [...]

Cyber and computer laws are always a grey area, they tend to be very vague and don’t cover specific technologies.
Spam is a good example, look at how long we’ve been getting spammed, and it’s been a SERIOUS problem for at least the last 5 years, spam legislation has only started coming in to effect in [...]

Scammers are getting more inventive and so it seems more technically advanced. They have actually duplicated the Interpol site to dupe people.

419 advanced fee scammers have created an exact copy of the Interpol website, which is expected to be used to dupe victims into believing they are dealing with the real International Criminal Police Organisation.
A [...]