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 Biting the hand that feeds IT Copyright: Copyright 2008, Situation Publishing Wed, 14 May 2008 20:10:12 +0200 Poked full of ViagraSocial networking sites have become the new front in the war against spam, according to security watchers.… Wed, 14 May 2008 12:40:41 +0200 'Spamford' Wallace hauled over the coalsMySpace 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 returnsSpam celebrates its 30th birthday on Saturday (3 May).… Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:12:01 +0200 Serial nuisance fails to defend caseMySpace 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 tooOne 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.… Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:32:56 +0200 Junk mailers set up CAPTCHA-busting sweatshops in IndiaThe 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 MySpamBookSpammers 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 downThe 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 pleaseFinding fewer emails in your AT&T spam folder? It may be a mixed blessing.… Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:07:31 +0100 Al Capone of junk mail heading for the big houseNotorious 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 gangWhy 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 mutinyPitcairn 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.… Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:03:32 +0100 Articles of bad faith?Google has removed Privila sites from its index after the firm was caught attempting to hoodwink the search engine giant.… Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:12:53 +0100 Junk bazaarPorn 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 DeadSix 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 fraudEmail 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 vegetablesSpammers, 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 clubbedCanadian 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 inJapanese 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 ladronesSpanish 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.… Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:59:23 +0100 Spammers'Holy GrailSpammers 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.… Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:40:55 +0100 When 'free' isn't freeAn 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.… Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:02:02 +0100 Feeling phished?Google's "I'm feeling lucky" button was designed to save web searchers time by automatically opening the first page of a query. It turns out the feature, and similar ones from other search engines, are increasingly helping junk mailers get around anti-spam products.… Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:24:04 +0100 The FTC's quest for spam stopping ballsAnalysis Anybody who says crime doesn't pay obviously hasn't talked to Sanford Wallace. In just six months' time, the prolific purveyor of spam and spyware engineered a scam on MySpace that netted at least $555,850, according to court documents filed this week.… Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:05:47 +0100 Whois also ruled dodgy by North Dakota courtDavid Ritz, the veteran American spam-fighter, has been hit by $60,000 in fines plus lawyers fees after losing a civil suit that accused him of illegal hacking.… Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:17:14 +0100 Pump and dump gang raked in millionsNotorious spammer Alan Ralsky and ten others have been indicted in the US over the alleged use of junk mail to promote stock fraud scams.… Thu, 20 Dec 2007 02:28:53 +0100 Money wired to Russia and UkraineDutch police have arrested 14 suspects who allegedly lent their bank accounts at ABN Amro to cybercriminals in Russia and Ukraine. After being recruited by the fraudsters, the mules received funds taken from phishing scams, which they transferred overseas.… Wed, 05 Dec 2007 02:34:48 +0100 Elephant ViagraSix weeks ago, a small blizzard of spam promoting Ron Paul, the Republican underdog running for US president, touched off a lot of head scratching. Had politics finally stooped to a place where candidates would resort to such a reviled means of communication?… Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:54:46 +0100 Acrobat Reader to display 'message from our sponsor'Despite my ma always saying ‘if you knew your times tables as well as your adverts’, people today still can’t escape advertising and the problem’s set to get even worse. Yahoo! has signed up with Adobe to incorporate targeted adverts into PDF documents.… Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:11:35 +0100 Stealth botnet responsible for huge spam surgeA copycat spam gang has launched an effort to compromise PCs that rivals the botnet created by the infamous Storm Worm Gang.… Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:20:53 +0100 Penis pill outrageA blog on a site promoting Al Gore's climate change documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, has been hacked by penis pill-promoting spammers.… Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:41:38 +0100 Collateral damageEmail phishing attacks tarnish the reputations of targeted firms, according to a new UK survey. Two in five UK adults (42 per cent) quizzed feel that their trust in a brand would be "greatly reduced" if they received a phishing email purporting to represent it.… Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:02:02 +0100 Spammers feel luckyAdvanced features in Google's search engine are being used by spammers to disguise the URLs of spamvertised sites. Hackers have been using Google search functions to hunt for vulnerabilities. Now their peers in the junk mail business are getting into the act, Symantec reports.… Sun, 04 Nov 2007 22:07:29 +0100 Spam scam sting yields resultsA New Jersey man has been jailed for more than two years after he was convicted of sending millions of junk mails to AOL members.… Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:59:16 +0100 After being swindled, man traveled to Ghana to recover fundsAn Irish man who was kidnapped after falling for an email fraud scam was rescued when police raided a hotel in the capital of Ghana where he was being held captive.… Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:33:47 +0100 Captcha-busting Trojan warningSpammers have come up with a sleazy - but undoubtedly ingenious - way to defeat anti-spam security checks.… Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:01:37 +0200 Take them downA pair of US men were each jailed for more than five years on Friday for their part in a long-running pornographic spam business that racked up revenues of more than $1m.… Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:42:19 +0200 Thick Skin yarn puncturedA yarn that a prolific Russian spammer was whacked by Russian hit-men is increasingly looking like a hoax.… Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:31:05 +0200 More friendly fire in the war on spamYesterday's story showing evidence that Microsoft has placed Draconian caps on the number of Hotmail recipients who can receive an email prompted a message from reader Jeff Willis. He says Hotmail routinely blocks mass emails his company, MIS Sciences Corporation, sends on behalf of universities and government agencies.… Tue, 09 Oct 2007 23:15:43 +0200 'Only 10 recipients at a time, please'Life can be tough when you're one of the globe's biggest email providers. Just ask Hotmail. Users get upset enough when come-ons for Viagra slip through the cracks of the Microsoft-owned service. But there's just as much hell to pay when its war on spam snuffs out legitimate emails.… Sat, 06 Oct 2007 03:58:18 +0200 If you use Yahoo!, eBay, and PayPal.Yahoo! has teamed with eBay and PayPal to save you from phishing scams. If you use Yahoo! Mail. And the scams involve eBay or PayPal.… Fri, 05 Oct 2007 14:42:28 +0200 Will anyone notice the difference?Miscreants have turned a YouTube service into a spam relay channel.… Fri, 05 Oct 2007 01:54:06 +0200 SEC beats up on pump-and-dump junk mailIn the ever-escalating world of cyber insecurity, it's rare to find good news. And yet the Security and Exchange Commission on Thursday did just that as it reviewed data showing stock-touting junk mail has dropped significantly since a tough anti-spam campaign kicked off in March.… Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:11:08 +0200 Slap on the wrist shows that cyber crime paysThree men accused of forcing spyware onto more than 15 million computers have agreed to pay $330,000 in fines and to to be monitored by federal authorities for up to eight years.… Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:42:27 +0200 Spammers eye the Holy GrailThis story was updated on 2nd October to add comment from Google.… Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:02:02 +0200 Cablevision and Comcast coddling criminals?Several weeks ago, security researcher Lawrence Baldwin dispatched an urgent email to abuse handlers at OptimumOnline, the broadband provider owned by Cablevision, warning that one of its customers stood to lose more than $60,000 to cyber crooks.… Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:36:37 +0200 Return to lower courtAn appeal court has quashed an $11m judgment against anti-spam organisation Spamhaus in favour of controversial email marketing outfit e360 Insight.… Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:39:11 +0200 Rising tide as stock markets fallSpammers have begun experimenting with a new file format as part of their ongoing quest to slip their tiresome messages past junk mail filters.… Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:03:56 +0200 Stormy weatherA dodgy spam definition update from Cloudmark has crashed users' email clients.… Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:03:45 +0200 Australian victim bilked of $1.5mSix men with ties to a West African crime network have been arrested in the Netherlands over an internet scam that bilked a man of $1.5m, according to police.… |
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