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Spammers are increasingly using 'out of office' features in web-based email to relay junk messages, security experts warned today.. A malicious spam campaign is threatening to disconnect users from the Internet as a result of their online activities, Sophos reports. Spammers are changing tactics again slightly, but sticking with the basic new theme of disguising spam under the banner of news.
Although down in recent months, around 150bn spam messages are sent every day, according to the latest quarterly Secure Computing Internet Threats Report.
Spam significantly increased in the second quarter of 2008, security vendor Sophos reported today. Malware-laden messages on the increase. There has been a vast increase in spam making reference to troubled high street banks. Sophos is warning Sydney residents that they are the target of a large scale spam campaign which claims a powerful nuclear explosion has occurred. Web monitoring firms are warning IT administrators to update their spam filters after a massive new spamming campaign was detected. McAfee has released the results of its Spammed Persistently All Month campaign.. Robert Alan Soloway, the so-called "spam king," pleaded guilty on Friday after prosecutors charged him with using botnets to deliver millions of unwanted junk mail messages to victims across the world. Six botnets are generating about 85 percent of all spam, according to security researchers at Marshal's TRACE labs. Mega-D and Srizbi have been trading places recently at the top of the spam menace list. The crisis on Wall Street is contributing to the largest rise in email-borne malware since February 2007. One spam related web page is appearing approximately every three seconds on the Internet according to Sophos’s latest quarterly spam report. Nigerian scammers have launched a new spam campaign sending fake Google Calendar meeting invitations in an attack targeted towards corporate users, security vendor BitDefender warned today.
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has shut down what it claims was the world's largest network of spammers. A new spam attack falsely alerts users to download a Microsoft patch in an attempt to install malicious malware. Most spam is sent to non-existent addresses, but that can still generate annoying messages for genuine users. A fake update claiming to be from MSN Messenger contains a malicious Trojan. Google's Picasa image hosting service is fast-becoming the new tool of choice for spammers to elude e-mail filters.