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Young Man behind Serious PC Fraud Faces Sentence
An IT expert Lewys Martin of 20-yrs of age living in Kent (UK) utilized his skill for orchestrating an Internet fraud, which yielded him huge money, thus
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/5/26
Symantec Claims Flashback Malware Operators made Less Money than the First thought
Security firm Symantec sometime ago disclosed that the masterminds behind the now-infamous OSX flashback Trojan made huge amount of money. Further found
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/5/26
Malware Spread through IM Software and Social Networks
According to security researchers from Trend Micro the security company, cyber criminals are disseminating malware across the Internet by apparently
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/5/25
Fake E-mails Masquerading as Messages from Norton Anti-Virus Detected
Fake electronic mails posing as a security alert that Norton Anti-Virus issued have been found to presently spread online while aiming to attack unwitting
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/5/25
Trusteer Discovers ZeuS Afresh Filching Debit-card Information
Trusteer the security company, during the 2nd week of May 2012, discovered one fresh variant of ZeuS a peer-to-peer (P2P) malicious program that was trying
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/5/24
Phishing E-mails Pretending to be from PayPal Identified
E-mails posing as messages from PayPal have been found presently circulating online, while aiming at unwitting Internet users, cautioned hoax-slayer.com
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Phishing Scams Victimizes WSU
According to Washington State University (WSU) Information Services, presently two different e-mail scams are spreading like wild fire on the inbox of
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/5/23
Advertisements on Wikipedia Likely Install Malware
Wikimedia, which runs the website Wikipedia, is cautioning visitors about ads appearing on the site that are actually malicious, capable of infecting
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/5/23
Scam E-mail Circulates Soliciting Private Banking Details
Scam e-mails that ask for recipients' private bank information have been found emanating continuously from Nigeria, which mention the names of Eddie Calvo
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/5/22
Dr. Web Finds Fresh Version of Trojan Rmnet
Doctor Web has said that a hacker-botnet built with the Win32.Rmnet.12 Trojan had already surpassed 1m contaminated hosts by April 2012. Lately, analysts at
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/5/22
Cyber-criminals’ Latest Strategy is Application-Based
Security specialists from BitDefender the security company claim that Internauts quite well know that several scams exist that tout products and techniques
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Amnesty International Website Compromised to Produce Malware
The upholder of human rights, Amnesty International reportedly had its United Kingdom website under the control of hackers between May 7 and 9, 2012 so it
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/5/21
Microsoft Issues Security Fix to Address Trojan Duqu
In its security update for May 2012 via the usual Patch Tuesday cycle, Microsoft repaired vulnerabilities within Windows, .Net Framework and Office,
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/5/19
Malware Scam, Which Infects Twice, Spotted
A malware scam, which attempts at infecting twice, for truly ensuring that potential victims are compromised, is doing the rounds and which investigators
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FBI Cautions Offshore Travelers of Malware Probable from Hotel Internet
According to an alert by FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), people on foreign tours must be vigilant of malevolent or bogus software that claim to be
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/5/18
Enticing E-mails about Adam Yauch’s Demise Serve Malware
Trend Micro, the security company warns of one fresh malware scam that's circulating online, exploiting people's sympathy and inquisitiveness about Adam
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Tatanga Trojan Utilized within Fake Insurance Scheme Attack
Trusteer is cautioning about Tatanga one financial malware that reportedly deceives Internet banking clients in such a way that they voluntarily endorse
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North America has a 13% Infection Rate for Home PCs
Kindsight Security Labs, which lately published its Q1-2012 Malware Report, states that during the quarter, about 13% of residential computers within North
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Geolocatiedienst Utility of Porn Sites Utilized to Identify Infected PCs’ Location
According to researchers from security firm, Websense, a malware strain has been revealed from infected computers offering adult dating websites. As the
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/5/16
25 Percent of PCs within UK have Malware, Reports PandaLabs
According to the Q1-2012 report by PandaLabs, nearly one PC in every batch of 4 inside UK has some form of infection. The study indicates that 23%-or-so of
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/5/16
OpenID being Imitated in New Spam Wave
Security researchers from Barracuda Labs state that one new spam campaign is enticing end-users onto a malevolent website, which attempts at duplicating one
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/5/15
ICS-CERT Cautions about Gas Pipeline Companies of USA being Targeted with Spear-Phishing
The U.S. ICS-CERT is cautioning of one live "spear phishing" scam that's aiming attack on enterprises within the sector for natural gas
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Syria Conducting Cyber-espionage on Dissidents’ PCs; F-Secure
According to F-Secure, the security company, the government of Syria apparently is using spyware to infect activists' computers through Skype for quietly
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New Ransomware Scam Accuses of Copyright Violation
Roman Hussy, security expert from Switzerland, the Zeus monitoring website and SpyEye Tracker its parallel site have discovered one ransomware, a malware
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Palo Alto Networks Discovers “Jericho” an Emerging Botnet
A botnet, in its process of building, has been found targeting financial institutions, particularly banks, caution security researchers from Palo Alto
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Mac Computers at Oxford University Profusely Infected with Flashback
The computer-systems at Oxford University were infected with the Flashback Trojan in hundreds of instances targeting faculty and students during the weeks
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Flashback Trojan Yields around $10,000 through Ad-click Component
According to Symantec, the Flashback Trojan, which has contaminated a massive number of Mac PCs, is likely yielding over $10,000 or EUR 7,600 daily to the
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/5/11
Flash Player Critical Vulnerability Exploited in IE for Windows Only
A critical security flaw that has been affecting Adobe's Flash Player application now has an update from the software company towards remedying the problem.
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Trusteer Uncovers Fresh Reveton Malware Strain
One fresh Reveton Trojan variant has been uncovered at Trusteer, the security company. The malware's operation reportedly occurs through the Citadel
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Trend Micro Detects Fresh Spam Outbreak Diverting Internauts onto Malicious Websites
Researchers from Trend Micro the security company are warning of spam mail outbreaks apparently, without any definite time of stopping that aiming attack on
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/5/10
Cyber-criminals Increasingly Targeting Attacks on Social Networks
Symantec, which has just published its Internet Security Threat report, states that spammers and fraudsters online are currently favoring attacks on social
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BBB Alerts Internauts about Fresh Phishing E-mails Masquerading as PayPal
USA's Better Business Bureau is cautioning users of PayPal about one advanced phishing scam that cyber-criminals have launched to target the website's
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/5/9
Sophos Detects Spam Diverting E-mail Recipients onto Malware-bearing Websites
Sophos the security company reports that one newly-launched spam outbreak that's circulating online is diverting victimized computers onto malevolent
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/5/8
Phishing E-mails Target Account-owners at Santander Bank
Phishing e-mails that pose as being sent from London, UK-based Santander Bank, presently circulating online, are aiming at the inboxes of people who are
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Computer Hacks through Compromised Websites Escalate, Reports Symantec
Symantec, which has just published its Report on Internet Security Threat, states that attacks on computers have sharply escalated through compromised
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Botnet Dismantling Result in Huge Spam Decline in 2011, Reports Symantec
Symantec, by issuing its latest Internet Security Threat Report for 2011, shows how botnet dismantling has forced online spam down to levels as akin to
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/5/7
Scam E-mails Target Freight Forwarders
Internet-scammers are dispatching false payment demands to freight forwarders, which pose as being sent from IATA (International Air Transport Association).
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Fake Anti-virus ‘Windows Foolproof Protector’ on the Prowl
Enigma Software, a security company says that malware programs are constantly emerging that through scare tactics are duping PC-users into surfing on
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Massive DDoS Assault Brings Down Websites UK2.NET Hosted
On the midnight of April 25, 2012, UK2.NET the web-hosting provider in UK confronted a DDoS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) assault, which effectively
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Java Vulnerability Reused for Fresh Drive-by Attack
Cyber-criminals to disseminate their malware have yet again begun searching Mac-computers for making a fresh use of the Java security flaw that the
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Massive Cyber-fraud Results in Detentions and Extradition
Anton Ivanov, prime accused in a conspiracy case involving execution of computer-hack and wire fraud, committed other crimes too. Together therefore, on
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A Single Exploitable Website Capable of Tasks of Different Crime-gangs; Zscaler
Investigators from Zscaler claim to have uncovered that even one website with an exploit can prove helpful to several online-crime syndicates as each group
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Significant Number of Snow Leopard-running Macs Infected with Flashback
The recent attack on Macs by Flashback, infected devices of which almost 66% were loaded with OS X 10.6 more familiarly called Snow Leopard, reports Dr. Web
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Fake Foursquare E-mails in Circulation
According to security researchers from Trend Micro, a spam outbreak is distributing malicious e-mails because the messages only pretend to be from the
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New Fraud that Involves Counterfeit Checks
An international vendor for secure services pertaining to web-access, Trusteer has unearthed one new case of fraud wherein data harvested through malware
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Intego Detects Latest Version of Flashback
According to security experts at Intego, the leading provider of 'Mac anti-virus' as well as computer-security, one fresh Flashback variant known as
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/5/1
Russian Cyber-criminals make Twofold Profits During 2011; Reports Group-IB
Group-IB a Russian security company recently published one report, which states that the net earnings, by the Russian cyber-criminals, in dollar terms went
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/5/1
Canadians Victimizes a Businessman in Gujarat
Hardik Dodiya, a Vadodara, Gujarat-based businessman alleged six peoples (three Canadians and three NRIs) for deceiving him of his money, as per Times of
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/5/1
SpyEye Variant Priced the Minimum, Available Online
According to researchers at McAfee, cyber-criminals are trading one fresh SpyEye variant called 'Pastebin paste' at the minimum price of $150 so anybody can
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/4/30
Iran Investigates Probable Internet-based Assault on Key Oil Depot
Industry sources have revealed that Iran's government has embarked upon an investigation into one cyber-assault that's suspected as targeting the country's
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/4/30
Flashback Infection of Macs Sharply Falls
Symantec and Kaspersky, each a security company reported that Mac computers, which contracted the Flashback Trojan, had dropped remarkably in number and
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Facebook Members Targeted with Fake Lottery E-mail
A bogus sweepstake targeting Facebook users, while presently circulating online, is victimizing unwitting people, published hoax-slayer.com dated April 25,
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Syrian Government and the New Method for Planting Malware
Researchers at Trend Micro the security company state that they have found one method, which apparently Syria's top authority has imbibed, for planting
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/4/28
McAfee Uncovers Nitol the Botnet Executing DDoS’ in China
McAfee Labs reports one DDoS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) network-of-bots it discovered active solely in China, while nicknamed Nitol.
Describing
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LinkedIn Notifications Employed to Serve Malware
Cyber crooks are once again on their expedition of victimizing fake invitations and messages to the users of social websites Linkedin, as per internet
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Fresh London 2012 Olympics Themed Spam Circulating; Trend Micro
Researchers from Trend Micro the security company are cautioning Internauts about one fresh spam scheme, which's using the soon to happen London 2012
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USA Behind India, the Country with Maximum Spam during Q1-2012; Sophos
India is ahead of USA with the greatest share in world spam. Its spam ratio is one spam mail to every ten messages. The statistic follows from Sophos the
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/4/27
Symantec Finds Fresh Ransomware Strain
As ransomware attacks get more-and-more common from cyber-criminals, one more new ransomware Trojan has come in the notice of investigators at Symantec the
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/4/27
Spam Volume in March 2012 Declines Only Slightly
Kaspersky Lab, which released its March 2012 spam report, shows that spam volumes from the total e-mail reduced 3.5% during March 2012 over the previous
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/4/27
Bank of America Target of Phishing E-mail
Accountholders with Bank of America are being urged for being vigilant nowadays of one fresh phishing e-mail, published softpedia.com dated April 23,
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RAT Malware Steals Credit Card Data Maintained at Hotels
Experts at Trusteer the security company are alerting of one RAT (Remote Access Trojan) that captures credit card data maintained on POS (point-of-sale)
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/4/26
India Source to One-fifth of World Spam, States Trend Micro
According to Trend Micro the security software company, 20% of malicious junk e-mails distributed around the globe, during the first quarter of 2012
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Malicious JavaScript Possibly Infected 20,000 Websites
Google declared through the Twitter micro-blogging site that in an alert to 20,000 Internet sites it had issued, the websites might've been contaminated
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CAFC Cautions Internet Users in Canada about Scareware Scam
According to a warning by CAFC (Canadian Anti-Fraud Center), e-mails distributing scareware i.e. fake anti-virus software are presently hitting Internauts'
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/4/26
White House Cyber-security Department Determined to Eradicate Botnets
USA's top supervisor and coordinator of cyber security Howard Schmidt is preparing battle against botnets to yet again eradicate the menace, reported
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Scrutinizing the Long Time Dangerous ZeroAccess Rootkit
SophosLabs reports ZeroAccess a kind of perilous malicious program, which has been circulating across the Web ever-since long. Lately, the security company
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/4/25
Scareware Pushing Malicious E-mail Outbreaks Target Twitter
Two separate bulk e-mail scams are presently attacking users of Twitter so they're led onto compromised websites pushing scareware meaning fake anti-virus
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Darkmegi Exploits Java Using Kernel Rootkit
According to the security firm McAfee, the Darkmegi malicious program, which has rootkit features, is starting to abuse vulnerability within Java so
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Microsoft’s Recent Botnet Shutdowns Prompt Criticism
Security experts from The Netherlands lately severely blamed the never-like-before persistent legal method for shutting down botnets by Microsoft through an
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Flashback Virus Infects Computers at University of Iowa
A new student Callie Furlong at UI (University of Iowa) was studying on the Internet April 11, 2012 when suddenly she couldn't access the university's other
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Fan Website for ‘Assassin’s Creed’ Harbors Trojan
A highly-popular PC game named "Assassin's Creed" has a fan website that has been serving one extremely malicious banker Trojan so when interested
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/4/24
Yahoo! Accountholders Yet Again Targeted with Phishing Scam
An e-mail maybe reaching Yahoo users' inboxes, posing as a message from the Yahoo organization, reported softpeda.com dated April 17, 2012. Actually, the
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/4/24
Credit Card Details Spoofed through SOPA Threats
New scareware malicious software 'SFX Fake AV' is trying to persuade computer-users by claiming of a lawsuit being filed against them due to breaching of
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/4/24
Mac Users, Currently Target of SabPub
Researchers from Kaspersky state that they've found one fresh backdoor named OSX.SabPub, which targets Java software, as it proliferates through the
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/4/23
Fresh Phishing Campaign Involving Spoofed E-mails to Military Members
According to a warning by DFAS (Defense Finance and Accounting Service), one fresh phishing scam has been found hitting the inboxes of military service
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Supporters of Tibetan Cause Targeted with Spam Mails
Organizations and activists supporting Tibet's cause presently appear as a highly targeted group so far as malicious attachment-included e-mails are
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Ransomware Demands EUR50 after Blocking Files from Access
One fresh strain of ransomware is in circulation affecting Russia and countries of Western Europe. Many anti-virus firms are cautioning about this malware
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DDoS Proficient Dirt Jumper Group of Crime Bots Exudes 300 Variants
According to Curt Wilson, security specialist at Arbor Networks, a bot family named Dirt Jumper, which is used for executing DDoS (Distributed
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/4/21
Binary Agent Plants Stuxnet with USB
The Stuxnet PC-worm utilized for damaging the nuclear program of Iran was installed on the country's systems when one binary agent on behalf of Israel
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Tibetan-themed E-mail Scam Thrusts ‘Blended’ Malware
Cyber-criminals are reportedly, still troubling Tibetan activists. Security researchers from Trend Micro discovered morphed malicious software within fresh
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/4/21
Eastern Illinois University Targeted by Phishing E-mail Scam
A report of dennews.com of April 12, 2012, said that approximately thirteen hundred people of eastern university recently being victimized by phishing email
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Zeus Victimizes Cloud Payroll Service
Zeus malware are being employed by cybercriminals for targeting companies using cloud-based payroll services, according to researchers from security firm,
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Ransomware Uses Blackmail Tactic for Retrieving MBR
According to experts at Trend Micro the security company, one fresh strain of ransomware infects PCs rendering them unable to load Windows as it substitutes
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HSBC Clients Targeted with Phishing Scam
A spam mail designed for phishing admonishes clients of HSBC Bank, the United Kingdom-situated banking conglomerate that they can't access their account as
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HCC Declares Computer Hack
Housatonic Community College has announced that an online data hack recently made public
some 87,000 confidential records pertaining to students,
» SPAMfighter News 2012/4/20
New Scam E-mail Targets Google Users
As per the security experts at security firm Sophos, a new scam campaign is spreading like wildfire across the Internet targeting Google users.
The
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Infection Bearing Flash Cards Accompanying HP Switches Inadvertently Distributed
Hewlett-Packard said that it was unknowingly marketing network switches it manufactured along with flash cards, which had malicious software, recently.
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/4/19
Fresh Ransom Malware Attacking Windows Servers Spotted
Researchers from Emsisoft a security company state that they have just detected one fresh malware strain that particularly attacks Windows servers. Many
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/4/19
Flashback Detections for Macs Lessening, Reports Symantec
Symantec, which published freshly-compiled data, reports that the number of Macs infected with Trojan Flashback reduced from about 50% of 1m units to
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/4/19
Considerable Increase in Phishing, Malware E-mails
According to "Eleven" an e-mail security company, harmful e-mails, during Q1-2012 (January-March 2012), increased, with 83.7% of malware-laced
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Samba Susceptible to Malicious Code Injection
The developers of Samba, an open source software enabling file and print sharing between Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X computers, released security patches
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Microsoft Releases Security Bulletins of its April Order
Microsoft issued a total of 6 security patches that fixes 11 flaws wherein the company assigned 4 flaws within its Office, Internet Explorer, Windows and
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“Grandparent Scam” yet again Spreading: FBI
A warning by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) calls upon citizens for remaining vigilant about the "Grandparent e-mail/telephone scam," which
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ABN Amro Bank Phishing E-mails Target Dutch and Belgian Users
According to MX Lab, cyber-criminals are distributing phishing e-mails written in Netherlands' national language while aiming at the inboxes of ABN Amro
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Tax Season Sees Massive Inflow of Scam Mail: Appriver
Appriver, a highly reputed provider of e-mail messaging and web security solution revealed recently of a massive threat and scamscape report on April 2012,
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Reveton Trojan Recommences
A Finland-based antivirus company, F-Secure revealed the circulation of spam messages through Reveton Trojan masquerading local police agencies and
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/4/17
Lottery Scam Hit a New York Resident
John Patrik Killian of 80 Years residing in New York is recently victimized through an e-mail lottery scam. The e-mail held claims of winning a huge jackpot
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/4/17
Flashback Botnet of Macs Larger than Conficker Network
A huge number of more than 600,000 Macs reportedly are included in a gigantic botnet built with the Flashback Trojan. So, making a comparison of this threat
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/4/17
Spam Decline 40% during Q1-2012: Commtouch
According to the 'Internet Threats Trend Report' by Commtouch a security company for January-March 2012 (Q1-2012) published lately, worldwide spam fell 40%
...» SPAMfighter News 2012/4/16
PC Virus Knocks Down EDA
An agency under the Department-of-Commerce (DoC) namely EDA (Economic Development Administration) reports that approximately 81-days earlier an extremely
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