Android Malware Spreads From Compromised Yahoo! Accounts
According to the latest research from Virus Bulletin (VB), the volume of spam sent from compromised accounts in the Yahoo! system has experienced a boost lately which VB believes is …
Spammers Use Web Hosts To Beat Anti-Spam Protection
According to the latest spam-filter test conducted by the Virus Bulletin magazine, spammers are increasingly using web hosting firms to send unwanted emails instead of relying on malware and botnets …
FBI And Microsoft Defeat Citadel Trojan Botnets
The FBI and Microsoft have brought down over 1,000 Citadel Trojan botnets. They are responsible for the theft of personal online banking identity data, according to a statement by global …
How Your Emails Can Get Attacked
In order to fight and avoid spam emails, users need to understand how their email address has become target to spammers in the first place. Spammers can access email addresses …
BT Leaves Yahoo! E-mail Over Hacking Complaints
UK-based communications group BT has decided to stop using Yahoo! as an e-mail provider, following continuous complaints from its user base of six million over hacking and spam attacks to …
Oldest Spam Botnet Gets Update
A case study conducted by Dell SecureWorks, the Georgia Institute of Technology and Damballa Labs shows that one of the oldest and largest spam botnets has received a new communications …
New Spam Delivery Method Discovered
A new spam delivery method has been discovered by IceWarp, a messaging products developer. The method is used by cyber criminals to break anti-spam defences and attack personal computers globally, …
Spam filtering quality!
During April 2013 a lot of customers report a bad filtering quality. We receive many feedback and complaint that a lot of spam are going through the filter and reach …
Spam Turns 35, Traffic Declines
The first spam message was sent on Arpanet (what would become the Internet) on 3 May 1978 from Gary Thuerk to his mailing list of 393 people with the aim …
Spammers Exploit Boston Tragedy To Spread Malware
Spammers have launched two new botnets, using the Texas fertiliser plant explosion and the Boston Marathon bombing to initiate spam campaigns. Capitalising on the attention the tragedies gained, they have …