Waledac Prepared to Create Nuisance on the US Independence Day

Security firm ESET's researchers recently claimed that they have come to know from some reliable sources that Waledac botnet is gearing up to trigger a spam

» SPAMfighter News 2009/7/4

Shah Brothers Claim Themselves Innocent

Missouri University (MU) alumni, Amir Shah and Osmaan Shah, who have been in federal custody since April 2009 on charges of spamming activities, have

» SPAMfighter News 2009/7/4

Phishers Registering Their Malicious Sites A Cause For Concern

According to researchers at security firm Netcraft, there is a common practice by cyber-criminals, intending to launch phishing assaults, to register the

» SPAMfighter News 2009/7/4

FBI Alerts Netizens of E-mail Scam Promising Prize Money

As per news reports obtained, a phishing e-mail is making the rounds while pretending to be a message from FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation).

» SPAMfighter News 2009/7/4

E-mail Scammers Focus on Webmail Accounts

According to security researchers, spammers are infiltrating users' Webmail accounts and using them to dispatch e-mails to each of the persons on the

» SPAMfighter News 2009/7/4

Cowlitz Bank Cautions Customers About Phishing Scam

According to fresh reports obtained, Cowlitz Bank is cautioning people against a phishing scam that is maliciously using the name and symbol and thereby the

» SPAMfighter News 2009/7/4

Netizens Receive Alerts on DHL Phishing E-mails from South Bend Police

South Bend Police are asking residents to be careful of an e-mail scam that has led to a flood rise in telephone inquires to their department, as reported

» SPAMfighter News 2009/7/3

Mcafee Detects New Info Capturing Trojan

Researches at security company McAfee have recently identified a malicious program "PWS-Banker.gen.i" which is a Trojan that steals information on

» SPAMfighter News 2009/7/3

Indian Orkut Accounts Compromised For Phishing

According to McAfee Avert Labs, as Web 2.0-based social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace increase in popularity, their users too are

» SPAMfighter News 2009/7/3

Symantec - Hackers Intensify Attacks to Exploit Vulnerability in Windows XP & Server 2003

Symantec (an online security company) states that an unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft Server 2003 and Windows XP has been included to a multiple attack

» SPAMfighter News 2009/7/3

Spam Offering So-called ‘Microsoft update’ Delivers Trojan

According to a warning from Trend Micro the security company, a recent surge of spam mails state that they have an important update for Microsoft Outlook,

» SPAMfighter News 2009/7/3

Spam Disaster Plagues China

According to director of research in computer forensics Gary Warner at the University of Alabama (Birmingham), the majority of spam that spreads malware,

» SPAMfighter News 2009/7/3

Habitat Charged of Using Hash Tag to Spam Twitter Users

Following the revelation of scam in which Habitat, a furniture retailer in London, used hash tags to send spam messages to Twitter users, the retailer has

» SPAMfighter News 2009/7/3

Scammers Target Hearing Impaired Users with Lottery Scam

According to security experts, online scammers' ethical values have fallen to such an extent that they have launched an e-mail scam that targets disabled

» SPAMfighter News 2009/7/2

Google Fixes a Crtical Security Flaw in Chrome

Google said that it had recently patched a critical security vulnerability in its browser 'Chrome'. The new Chrome version 2.0.172.33 comes with the patch

» SPAMfighter News 2009/7/2

Webroot - Risky Behavior Put Social Networkers at Risk

Security firm Webroot recently conducted a survey, according to which, there are greater chances of online social-networking members becoming victims of

» SPAMfighter News 2009/7/2

Malware Purveyors Use Gossip to Lure Spam Recipients

According to security specialists at TrendLabs, while gossip and rumor regularly draw the interest of numerous people all over the world, they also draw the

» SPAMfighter News 2009/7/2

Cyber Criminals Increasingly Hacking into Gaming Accounts

Garlik, an online identity company, has warned that there is an increasing trend of cyber-criminals attacking online gamers to reap the latter's financial

» SPAMfighter News 2009/7/2

Cyber Attacks Expected to Rise in Asia-Pacific

According to the security company 'Symantec', the safety of Internet usage in Asia Pacific is apprehended to go down as people increasingly conduct online

» SPAMfighter News 2009/7/2

Massachusetts Police Alert Residents against UPS E-mail Scam

The Massachusetts Police Department has reported an increase in e-mails that pretend as a package sent by someone through a package delivery firm 'United

» SPAMfighter News 2009/7/1

Security Experts Warn Against New Trending Topic ‘Alan Turing’ Targeting Twitter

According to security experts, cyber criminals are using another trending topic 'Alan Turing' to spread malicious program on Twitter.

Turing, a

» SPAMfighter News 2009/7/1

Famous Personalities’ Twitter Accounts Spread Porn Trojan

As per the news published in ecommerce-journal on June 24, 2009, Twitter users became the target of a new wave of hacking attacks on June 23, 2009.

» SPAMfighter News 2009/7/1

Spammers Engage Unwary Users in MSN Chat, Extort Sensitive Information

Sophos the IT security company is warning about a curious spam campaign, which attempts to entice people using public chat service such as MSN into handing

» SPAMfighter News 2009/7/1

ScanSafe Claims Nine Ball Assault a Sheer Propaganda

Security vendor ScanSafe has blasted its rival Websense for apparently exaggerating the alleged "Nine Ball" bulk website hijacking, it recently

» SPAMfighter News 2009/7/1

Symantec Discovers New PC Virus W32.Sapaq

The security company 'Symantec' on June 12, 2009 detected a freshly released computer virus named 'W32.Sapaq' that multiplies automatically and spreads

» SPAMfighter News 2009/7/1

E-mail Scam Using Coca Cola’s Name Hitting UK Inboxes

According to a news published in Mirror on June 23, 2009, a spam mail purporting to be from Coca Cola is being sent to users' inboxes as it announces a

» SPAMfighter News 2009/7/1

Sophos – Mass Injection Attacks Back Installing ‘Troj/Iframe-CB’

According to the Sophos security experts, they have recently detected a large number of legitimate websites infested with malicious script dubbed as

» SPAMfighter News 2009/6/30

Cox Communications’ Customers Get Warning of Phishing E-mail Scam

Cox Communications (Atlanta USA) has asked its customers in Arizona to be careful of a fake e-mail that deceives customers into giving away their personal

» SPAMfighter News 2009/6/30

Phishing E-mails Purport to be From St. George Bank

Security researchers have recently warned people about a fresh phishing scam that involves e-mails claiming to be messages from Australia-based St. George

» SPAMfighter News 2009/6/30

Over 70% of Indian Internet Users Vulnerable to Phishing Scams

VeriSign, which has recently commissioned a survey, shows that almost 76% of Internet surfers in the Indian subcontinent face the risk of online fraud

» SPAMfighter News 2009/6/30

New Variant of Trojan RSPlug Spreads Through Game Sites

Researchers at Intego, the security company for Mac, have detected a new version of 'RSPlug Trojan' an infamous Mac malware that they named OSX/RSPlug.K as

» SPAMfighter News 2009/6/30

Fraudsters Selling Free Avast Antivirus in Cash

ALWIL Software (the company that provides free Avast antivirus) is being scammed as fraudsters through fake websites asking for money to download the

» SPAMfighter News 2009/6/30

PC Tools – Women More Online Security Conscious than Men

According to a new survey conducted by security vendor 'PC Tools', more than one third of computer users do not update their security applications that

» SPAMfighter News 2009/6/29

Spammers Intensify Attacks against Twitter Users

Panda Security has discovered a wave of attacks on Twitter that uses links and malicious software to infect computer. They also include the exploitation of

» SPAMfighter News 2009/6/29

Spammer ‘Alan Ralsky’ & His Gang Pleaded Guilty of Running Stock Campaign

Alan Ralsky, 63 years old and is known as the international spam king, admitted his involvement in sending millions of fake e-mails in a stock-fraud scheme

» SPAMfighter News 2009/6/29

Vulnerability Reported in Windows 2000 Print Spooler

According to reports, a security flaw has been discovered in the Print Spooler of Microsoft. This flaw is rated as a "high" risk as it could allow

» SPAMfighter News 2009/6/29

Dating Spam Deceives Users with Fake Advertisement

According to the Internet security company 'Trend Micro', it has been found that spam mails inviting for a date are on an increase. These e-mails, says the

» SPAMfighter News 2009/6/29

People Cautioned about Malicious E-mail Supposedly from Fed Ex/UPS

Bob Johnston, Assistant District Attorney of DeKalb County (Georgia, USA), has urged Internet users to exercise caution against a fresh PC virus currently

» SPAMfighter News 2009/6/29

‘Green Dam’ Makers Asked to Patch the Software’s Vulnerability

The Chinese software maker 'Jinhui', which created the Internet filtering software mandated by the Peoples Republic, has acknowledged the software called

» SPAMfighter News 2009/6/29

uSocial.net - Twitter Spam Marketing Not Rise Further

After conducting an interesting study, uSocial.net, a web traffic and promotion agency, has recently said that the number of attacks on Twitter has reached

» SPAMfighter News 2009/6/28

Web Ads Increasingly Encouraging Viruses and Malware

With cyber-attacks through malicious software having become exhausted with the distribution of every possible online substance, adware is following

» SPAMfighter News 2009/6/28

Twitter Spam Carrying Virus Unleashed

Following phishers' attack against Twitter during May 2009 through the supply of bulk spam mails, Symantec Security Response has currently discovered bogus

» SPAMfighter News 2009/6/28

Spammer could be Sentenced to Prison Following a Facebook Lawsuit

A U.S. federal judge has referred a legal suit by Facebook against alleged spammer Sanford Wallace to the Office of U.S Attorney General for probable

» SPAMfighter News 2009/6/27

Cyber-Criminals Abusing Iran’s Political Crisis, Distributing Malware

While the media reports of how the opposition political party in Iran is adopting social-networking websites, particularly 'Twitter' to circumvent

» SPAMfighter News 2009/6/27

UAC Flaw Continues to Exist in Windows OS

A Microsoft blogger who some time back pointed out to a security flaw within Windows 7's UAC (User Account Control) says the flaw continues to remain and

» SPAMfighter News 2009/6/26

Nine Ball Website Compromises Hit Over 40,000 Sites

According to Websense, its Security Labs ThreatSeeker Network has uncovered another bulk code-injection attack on the web following the Gumblar and Beladen

» SPAMfighter News 2009/6/26

BIOS Vulnerable to Modern Malware Attacks

'Basic Input/Output System', a firmware run by a PC at the time of boot-up, is increasingly targeted by malware attacks as modern hackers having

» SPAMfighter News 2009/6/26

Scams Striking Law Firms & Attorneys, Warns Mississippi AG

The Office of Mississippi (USA) Attorney General is warning that a phishing scam is making rounds on the Internet to attack law firms and attorneys.

» SPAMfighter News 2009/6/26

Opera Unite May Open New Avenues of Attack for Criminals

Opera has integrated a number of new features to its Opera 10 browser that will soon be available in the market. It is believed that one of the features

» SPAMfighter News 2009/6/26

Facebook Users Warned Against Visiting Killselfz.com or Ligromind

Online security experts have warned people to avoid visiting Killselfz.com or Ligromind.com as they have been recently bombarded by spammers while running a

» SPAMfighter News 2009/6/26