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Microsoft duo question easy money 'myth'

Contrary to popular belief, phishers make little or no money, according to a study by two Microsoft researchers.…

  Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:50:13 +0100

Whipping up a Storm

Pharmacy-touting spammers can turn a decent return on response rates as low as one in 12 million, far lower than previously thought.…

  Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:10:22 +0100

Republican rickrolling ruse

Spammers have upped the ante in their bid to tap into interest created by the US presidential election this week to punt penis pills other assorted pharmaceutical tat.…

  Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:52:01 +0100

Taking the political temperature through the medium of penis-enlargement promises

USA '08 Barack Obama is ahead not only in the polls but where it counts the most - in spam messages. However, his presidential rival John McCain can claim his own guaranteed enlarged small victory.…

Second co-defendant said to plead guilty

A woman accused of aiding notorious spam kingpin Alan Ralsky in a relentless junkmail torrent has admitted to sending tens of millions spam messages and agreed to cooperate in the prosecution of her boss. A second defendant is expected to plead guilty on Friday.…

  Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:33:03 +0200

Undead spam

After laying low for the better part of a year, the Warezov botnet is back - with some new tricks up its sleeve.…

  Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:24:20 +0200

FTC targets Texas-Kiwi connection

US regulators have struck a body blow at two men accused of masterminding the world's largest spam enterprise by obtaining a court order that shuts down some half-dozen companies they operated and freezing assets earned in the operation.…

  Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:39:54 +0200

Bulk Mailing 4 Dummies

An Arizona couple accused of bombarding a small internet service provider with millions of spam messages has been ordered to pay more than $236m in a federal case that documents the heroic measures one man took against the torrent of unsolicited junk mail.…

  Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:16:21 +0200

Rap on the knuckles

Outdoor gear firm Timberland has agreed to pay $7m to settle a text message spam class-action lawsuit in the US.…

Fake robbery footage punts rogue security app

First it appeared as an art project. Now, over a decade later, it's back from the dead as a malware lure.…

Overturns anti-spam law, invokes Founding Fathers

Notorious American AOL spammer Jeremy Jaynes had his nine year federal prison sentence overturned today, when Virginia's high court ruled the state's tough "anti-spam" law violates the First Amendment right to free speech.…

The Viagra two step

Online scammers have found a new way to skirt anti-spam filters, this time by making use of Adobe Flash files hosted on free websites.…

Directi strikes back

A company that provides a controversial service to domain name registrars says it is severing ties with Estdomains amid complaints that the Eastern European company makes it too easy to register sites that are used by spammers and scammers.…

  Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:17:05 +0200

And now a word for our illegal online pharmacy sponsor

Note: Officials at LogicBoxes and Directi take strong exception to the reports discussed in this story. Their objections are detailed in this follow-up story.

  Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:02:05 +0200

Hands off our inboxes

Two in five Brits are worried that free webmail comes at the expense of privacy because firms are scanning their messages in order to serve up targeted ads.…

  Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:13:25 +0200

Time to evolve, aardvarks

The use by spammers of dictionary attacks means those whose email address begins with a less common first character are liable to get less spam.…

  Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:11:15 +0200

A new low

With a sick email malware campaign, pond dwelling scumbags are claiming to have kidnapped the children of would-be targets of infection.…

Zombie farmer suspects sent to the pen

A Brazilian man who allegedly sold access to a huge network of compromised PCs has been charged with computer hacking offences in the US.…

  Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:46:31 +0200

Address harvesting all too easy

Apple has inadvertently made it easy for spammers to create a database of MobileMe email addresses.…

From the penthouse to the Big House

One of the world's most prolific spammers has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison and ordered to forfeit more than $708,000 in income for blasting out tens of millions of unwanted emails.…

  Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:41:04 +0200

'Your friend has paid us to kill you...'

You know how it is - things are a bit quiet in the internet cafes of Lagos, people have sussed MARIAM ABACHA doesn't really have $30,000,000 (THIRTY MILLION DOLLARS) in gold bullion looted from Saddam Hussein's personal vault, and so it looks like it's time to up the email scam ante.…

  Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:03:09 +0200

One minute behind bars for every junk mail

A New Yorker was jailed for 30 months on Tuesday after being convicted for spamming 1.2 million AOL members with junk mail.…

  Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:22:46 +0200

D'oh!

Turkish hackers have taken advantage of an email address that appeared in The Simpsons to recruit marks onto the Kimya botnet.…

  Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:44:27 +0200

Workshop foreman in junk mail hell

Receiving a few hundred spam messages a day is bad enough, but spare a thought for an unfortunate Orange user who's the target of a server-straining 44,000 junk mail missives every 24 hours.…

  Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:02:43 +0200

(Un)happy Talking

Citizens of the Marshall Islands in the South Pacific have been left without a functioning email systems following a denial of service attack on the country's sole ISP.…

China mostly to blame, but so is Google

Almost half the websites pushing malware are hosted by just 10 networks, according to a new report that adds new support to the growing argument that a relatively few number of actors are responsible for most of the net-based threats.…

  Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:52:31 +0200

Junk mail menace canned

Self-styled former spam king Scott Richter has been ordered to pay MySpace $6m over allegations he blitzed users of the social networking website with junk mail messages sent from hijacked accounts.…

  Wed, 21 May 2008 18:16:17 +0200

Router bricking risk

A security attack that damages embedded systems beyond repair was demonstrated for the first time in London on Wednesday.…

Poked full of Viagra

Social networking sites have become the new front in the war against spam, according to security watchers.…

'Spamford' Wallace hauled over the coals

MySpace has won a $230 million anti-spam judgment against notorious spammer Sanford Wallace and his partner Walter Rines. US District Judge Audrey Collins made the order - reckoned to be the largest ever in an anti-spam case - after the duo failed to appear in court.…

  Thu, 01 May 2008 15:31:32 +0200

Many unhappy returns

Spam celebrates its 30th birthday on Saturday (3 May).…

  Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:12:01 +0200

Serial nuisance fails to defend case

MySpace has won a lawsuit against notorious spammer Sanford (Spamford) Wallace. The social networking website gained a default judgment against Wallace after he failed to turn over documents or appear in court, CNet reports.…

  Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:15:03 +0200

'Word on the street' says Hotmail downed too

One of the biggest spam block lists on the internet suffered an embarrassing technical cock-up today which blocked emails from some servers at web security monitoring firm MessageLabs and at some ISPs for about five hours.…

Junk mailers set up CAPTCHA-busting sweatshops in India

The growing abuse of webmail services to send spam has led anti-spam services to throttle messages from Gmail and Yahoo!…

  Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:25:18 +0200

MySpamBook

Spammers have found a fertile new marketplace on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace.…

  Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:56:29 +0100

Washington state cracks down

The alleged supplier of some of the net's most hated malware titles has been sued by Washington state's attorney general.…

  Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:30:04 +0100

Aims too high to please

Finding fewer emails in your AT&T spam folder? It may be a mixed blessing.…

Al Capone of junk mail heading for the big house

Notorious spammer Robert Soloway faces an extended spell behind bars after pleading guilty to fraud and tax evasion charges last Friday.…

  Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:54:49 +0100

Semi-automated attack or chain-mail gang

Why should miscreants bother to develop cutting edge programming techniques when they can pay $3 to somebody to set up spam-ready webmail accounts on their behalf? Evidence has emerged that people as well as malware are being used to defeat CAPTCHAs, challenge-response systems that are often used to stop the automatic creation of webmail accounts by spammers.…

  Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:52:58 +0100

South Sea junk mail mutiny

Pitcairn Island, the final South Sea island refuge of the Bounty mutineers, relays more spam per capita than any other nation. But with an estimated population of 48, perhaps it's not that surprising.…

Articles of bad faith?

Google has removed Privila sites from its index after the firm was caught attempting to hoodwink the search engine giant.…

Junk bazaar

Porn peddlers and spammers are upping their assault on Google Groups. Many links on the discussion group site link to porn aggregators, some of which redirect to malware sites pushing Trojan horse malware (such as VirusHeat) disguised as video codecs.…

  Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:16:00 +0100

Diary of the Dead

Six botnets are responsible for 85 per cent of all spam, according to an analysis by net security firm Marshal.…

  Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:38:48 +0100

Poker faced fraud

Email fraudsters are increasingly targeting customers of online casinos with phishing attacks. A wave of assaults against punters betting in casinos run from Antigua and the Dutch Antilles shows that attackers are extending their range beyond targets such as online banks and eBay.…

  Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:10:01 +0100

Fresh fruit for rotting vegetables

Spammers, fresh from the success of cracking the Windows Live captcha used by Hotmail, have broken the equivalent system at Gmail.…

  Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:22:32 +0100

17-strong hacking network clubbed

Canadian police have arrested 17 people suspected of running a huge botnet of compromised PCs. Up to one million computers in various countries were allegedly under the control of the suspects, who range in ages from 17 to 26. All but one are male, UPI reports.…

  Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:23:32 +0100

Old skool spam suspect taken in

Japanese police have arrested a "prolific spammer" who allegedly bombarded inboxes with hundreds of millions of messages punting internet gambling and dating sites.…

  Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:44:22 +0100

El Gordo ladrones

Spanish police have arrested ten Nigerians suspected of running a spam-fuelled lottery scam that raked in €19,000 ($28,000) in illicit earnings over three months.…

Spammers'Holy Grail

Spammers are using a sophisticated piece of software that can create thousands of Windows Live email addresses by cracking the protections designed to prevent the large-scale creation of fraudulent accounts.…

When 'free' isn't free

An online advertiser that falsely claimed consumers had won free prizes has agreed to pay a $200,000 penalty to the Federal Trade Commission, which says the outfit failed to disclose that people had to spend money first.…


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