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Expect more malware, unwelcome email, and social engineering threats this season. The crisis on Wall Street is contributing to the largest rise in email-borne malware since February 2007. 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. Spammers are using thousands of Google Groups to spread unwanted email and malware. Security firm Sophos has launched a Spam Pledge to mark the 30th anniversary of junk email, urging users to help stamp out the scourge of spam. 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.
A new wave of "3D screensaver" spam is directing recipients to a malware site from a notorious malware gang that had ceased activity in January after their site was attack by a rival group of cybercriminals, researchers at Sunbelt reported. Websense has warned that spam emails have emerged which attempt to dupe recipients into downloading videos of Wednesday's total lunar eclipse in the US but instead deliver an information-stealing trojan to the user's PC. 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. Bogus alerts purporting to be from CNN are luring victims to over 1,000 hacked websites pushing fake, malware-infested Flash Player software, Internet security watchdogs have warned. A new large-scale botnet has been spotted forwarding what appears to be real news headlines about Microsoft, George Bush and Al Qaeda in an attempt to infect users.
Self-styled 'King of Spam' Scott Richter has been ordered to pay US$6m in legal fees and damages for spamming MySpace subscribers in August 2006.
A legitimate attachment containing information about security for the upcoming Beijing Summer Games is also masking a trojan, researchers at MessageLabs said. October was a scary month for IT administrators in charge of filtering spam, according to a pair of reports from messaging security firms. Spammers preyed on popular current events in May capitalising on the global economic slowdown, petrol prices and natural disasters. Spammers will use the upcoming US elections as a means to increase spam volumes, security firm BitDefender has warned. 96.63 per cent of all email scanned. Pornographic spam levels dropped to an all-time low in February, according to new research from Symantec, while a Marshal report showed overall spam levels at a record high. Privacy woes continue to plague Facebook this week following the revelation that a spam campaign is hijacking user accounts and posting messages on the Wall feature of user profiles.