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Spammers have developed automated techniques to create fake pages on Google's Blogger service that are used to hawk typical junk mail merchandise. Spammers have pounced on rising petrol prices in the US by offering bogus fuel discounts. Most spam is sent to non-existent addresses, but that can still generate annoying messages for genuine users. Market for hijacked PCs fuels online crime. Spammers are increasingly using 'out of office' features in web-based email to relay junk messages, security experts warned today.. A look at two of the signing technologies PayPal plans to use to improve sent email authentication, which would allow ISPs to drop each email that isn't properly verified. Spammers are becoming more business savvy and are capitalising on news and seasonal trends in a more commercial way.. MySpace today announced it has filed a federal lawsuit against a well-known spammer who allegedly used the popular social networking site to send millions of messages promoting websites that hawked items such as ring tones and Polo shirts. Experts are worried about the security protection on Gmail after a recent rise in spam volumes.. 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. Malware that exploits un-patched pirated versions of Microsoft Windows have topped Bitdefender's January top ten security threats list. Spam messages promoting Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul that were distributed in October have been traced to a Ukrainian botmaster. Two more months in the slammer for spammer. Large-scale data breaches across both the private and public sectors dominated the news throughout the year. Rob Buckley looks back. TOP 5 CYBERATTACKS:

1. The Storm Worm
What began as an email-spawned trojan attack using fake news stories to lure victims became the most widespread cyber-assault in recent memory. Still replicating, and exploiting a number of patched vulnerabilities, the botnet-fueled, socially engineered attack may make next year's list as well. The number of spam advertising messages sent to email users is levelling off, according to a software engineer at Google's Gmail service.. Hackers are using YouTube servers to lure users of the popular video sharing site into visiting dating sites or to promote their goods online in a new spam campaign, warn security experts. Research suggests that spammers didn't find the results they were looking for during recent PDF spam spikes, according to anti-virus vendor Sophos. "It's the economy, stupid." It worked for spammers now, and it will work for spammers in the future. The employment website Monster.com has suffered a malware attack with the personal details of hundreds of thousands of users stolen, according to Symantec.