You might remember back in November last year Spam ISP McColo was Cut Off From the Internet and there was a fairly drastic drop in spam e-mail traffic. Well it looks like the spammers have got their acts back together as spam levels are back up to 91% of their previous volume. Having McColo shut […]
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Posted in: Malware, Phishing, Spammers & Scammers | Add a CommentSome interesting security industry news, it seems like Symantec is really setting itself up to be the Microsoft of the security world. They are buying up anything and everything and merging it into the Symantec borg…things that are successful of course. Their latest acquisition is the popular MessageLabs, a good example of both cloud computing […]
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, […]
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Posted in: Spammers & Scammers | Add a CommentIf 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 […]
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Posted in: Advertorial, Phishing, Spammers & Scammers | Add a CommentThe spam landscape has changed quite a lot in the last year or so with image spam and now the latest tactic is PDF and .zip attachments. PDF’s of course being preferred by spammers as you don’t need to extract anything to view their spam, you just open it in your favourite PDF viewer and […]
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Posted in: Spammers & Scammers | Add a CommentI 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 […]
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Posted in: Malware, Spammers & Scammers | Add a CommentAs 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 […]
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Posted in: General News, Phishing, Spammers & Scammers | Add a CommentIt 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 […]
Tags: email-phishing, email-scams, email-spam, keyser soze, malware, Phishing, phishing-attacks, rock phish, rock-phishing, rock-phishing-group, scam, scammers, scams, spam, spammers
Posted in: General News, Phishing, Spammers & Scammers | Add a CommentSo a friend of mine received a spam, which is not unusual, but this one was a little different. This guy is in Malaysia, and the spam he usually receives is from all over the place, mostly US-centric, but this one was targeting Malaysians, Malaysian spammer producing Malaysian spam, is it the first? I asked […]
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