[ad] Vishing, now there’s a new term for you. Basically its Phishing – but utilising VoIP call services, which makes it very easy to spoof the Caller ID. Even though Caller ID Spoofing was Made Illegal in the USA – people will still continue to do it, remember the FCC said it’s still easy to […]
Spammers & Scammers
Spammers Target Social Networking Sites
[ad] 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 […]
Spammers Harnessing Web Mail Servers – Gmail & Yahoo! Throttled
[ad] 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 […]
Kraken Botnet Twice The Size Of Storm
[ad] We wrote a while back about a new wave of sophisticated botnets, which were predicted to overtake Storm and become the largest infectors online. It seems like it’s come true, after extensive research Damballa has uncovered the biggest botnet ever, which at present has over 400,000 unique IPs (in a space of only 24 […]
iFrame Piggybacking on Google Searches to Install Malware
[ad] These spammers and scammers are getting rather clever, and very sneaky. This is still epedemic and seems to be happening more and more. It takes a re-write of many of the large sites online..which frankly isn’t going to happen is it? It just shows once again the spammers will think of all kinds of […]