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Spammers were more naughty than nice this past holiday season, according to Symantec’s monthly ‘State of Spam’ report. The cybercrime market is poised to be even ‘hotter’ in 2008 as spammers increase targeted attacks and create new social engineering techniques to claim their stake in cybercrime’s US$105 billion market. Researchers at an Eastern European security company have uncovered a spam-sending scheme of "Byzantine complexity" that attempts to use military and university email servers to send junk email.
Thousands of chief executives in the United States were targeted Monday by a new round of phishing emails that claim to contain a subpoena ordering recipients to testify in court. Market for hijacked PCs fuels online crime. NatWest has topped the list of most popular company names used by fraudsters when targeting the personal finance industry.
Spam originating from popular webmail services are spiking now that spammers have found ways to evade the challenge-response requirements for opening an account, a new study from email security firm MessageLabs reveals. Spammers capitalising on nationwide interest in the Democratic presidential nomination battle are sending out messages offering a link to a "Hillary Clinton video interview" that instead launches a trojan downloader on the victim's PC. The first months of 2008 has seen spam levels rise with the economic situation and Olympics adding fuel to the fire. Australians are more concerned about securing outbound email which can lead to sensitive data loss than they are about securing inbound email that could steal data, according to a new survey by Proofpoint.
Email security vendors reported a spike in PDF spam this week that, because of the size of the messages, increased global spam traffic by as much as a third. We've all heard about the recent rise in spam, and while I dislike spam as much as the next person, I recently received a spam message that got me quite excited. The Australian Communications and Media Authority has issued a formal warning to The Ad Company Pty Ltd for alleged breaches of the Spam Act 2003.
Security vendor Marshal is warning email users of a new mass targeted spam outbreak which contains a personalised subject line claiming to have caught 'you' naked on video. The federal Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has suspended trading on three thinly-traded stocks that the agency said were being touted in spam and YouTube campaigns. Spam emails, purporting to deliver a money-transfer notification from Western Union but containing an attachment with an executable trojan, have been spotted in the wild by researchers at Sunbelt Software. Researchers at Marshal, an internet security firm, are tracking a new spam campaign in which recipients receive messages inviting them to join MySpace – but a click on the link leads them to a bogus page containing malware disguised as an Adobe update. Anti-spam firm MXSweep has reported that MP3-based pump-and-dump spam now accounts for up to 10 percent of all spam sent.. A man described by Microsoft as one of the top ten spammers in the world has been sentenced to nearly four years in jail. After a spate of holiday-themed attacks, the Storm Worm creators are going back to basics with their latest spam run that launched Sunday.