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SPAMfighter News 2013/5/21
Pushdo Malware and Cutwail Botnet are Back
Since 2008, four times, technology firms and authorities have taken down the prolific Pushdo and Cutwail spam botnet. Yet it keeps resurrecting for more, as
...SPAMfighter News 2013/5/21
Bogus Phone Calls are made by Cybercriminals to Install Malware Companies Computer
Cyber thieves are employing a new social-engineering method - hoax business calls to install malicious software on the machines of their company targets, as
...SPAMfighter News 2013/5/21
289,874 Cybercrime Complains in 2012, Received by IC3
The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) recently launched its 2012 Internet crime Report, which claims that the IC3 got and executed 289,874 cyber crime
...SPAMfighter News 2013/5/20
Sophos Intercepts Fake Amazon UK E-mails
Sophos the security company cautions that an e-mail attack is widely spreading as Internet crooks mimic one authentic e-mail from Amazon U.K.
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SPAMfighter News 2013/5/20
Phishing E-mail Warning for ANZ Bank Clients
Accountholders with ANZ Bank are currently being alerted to malicious e-mails, state security officials, which softpedia.com published dated May 14,
...SPAMfighter News 2013/5/20
Americans Massively Targeted with Malicious Software during 2012
Consumer Reports, which recently released its "Annual State of the Net Report," highlights that during 2012, a huge 58.2m adults in USA suffered a
...SPAMfighter News 2013/5/17
Zscaler Uncovers Update for Flash Player, Actually a Malware
Often like before, cyber-criminals have yet again unleashed a malware strain in the guise of a Flash Player update, which researchers at Zscaler the
...SPAMfighter News 2013/5/17
“g01pack” the well-known Exploit Kit now in Fresh Version
A globally-used exploit kit ranking amongst the top 4, namely g01pack, now exudes one new trick following its previous ones, i.e. it changes the way malware
...SPAMfighter News 2013/5/16
Scam E-mails Carrying Malware Masquerade as Citibank Paymentech
Security companies and many websites posting advisories on scams have cautioned Internauts of fake e-mails carrying malware which pose as Citibank
...SPAMfighter News 2013/5/16
HSBC First Direct Subscribers Alerted to Fake E-mail Campaign
Clients of First Direct, an HSBC Bank unit, which facilitates Internet-based and telephone retail banking, have been urged for being vigilant of dubious
...SPAMfighter News 2013/5/16
Cyber Thugs Disseminate Winnti Malicious Program Utilizing Genuine Analysis Tool
Trend Micro has said that hackers are disseminating Winnti a malicious program for compromising Web-surfers' computers by employing one fresh backdoor
...SPAMfighter News 2013/5/14
PandaLabs say that almost 6.5 Million New Malware Samples were formed in Q1-2013
PandaLabs recently launched its quarterly Report for Q1-2013, examining the IT security events and incidents from January through March 2013. In the first
...SPAMfighter News 2013/5/14
Cyber-crooks Compromise FOX21 News’ E-mail Server
Cyber-criminals, around 4th-5th of May 2013, hacked into FOX21 News' e-mail server, reports Help Net Security dated May 7, 2013.
It maybe noted
SPAMfighter News 2013/5/14
Cyber-criminals hack US Media Websites for Redirection Assaults
According to security experts, cyber-crooks recently compromised websites belonging to popular U.S. media companies and used them for diverting visitors
...SPAMfighter News 2013/5/13
Phishing E-mail Scam Targets BigPond Telstra Customers
An e-mail scam posing as sent from BigPond Telstra is under observation ever-since a security official got a message using the salutation "Dear BigPond
...SPAMfighter News 2013/5/13
Malware Creators Exploiting AutoIt
Trend Micro warns that malware developers are increasingly using AutoIt, the automation computer-language, which resembles the BASIC, for Windows
...SPAMfighter News 2013/5/13
DoL Website Hijack Owing to Fresh 0-day Vulnerability
The hacking attack, which hijacked an online site of DoL (Department-of-Labor) of the United States, recently, occurred due to one fresh 0-day security flaw
...SPAMfighter News 2013/5/10
SpyEye’s Co-creator Allegedly Deported to USA
Hamza Bendelladj, aged 24, and from Algeria, who's familiarly called "Bx1" on the Internet was detained in Thailand previously, current 2013,
...SPAMfighter News 2013/5/10
Cyber-crooks Constantly Improvise DDoS Botnet of IRC/HTTP Type
According to researcher of cyber-crime Dancho Danchev who's also security blogger, with Webroot the security company, one Internet Relay Chat/ Hypertext
...SPAMfighter News 2013/5/9
Spam Mails Increased Significantly during Q1-2013, Reports Commtouch
Commtouch the provider of cloud-based security software recently declared its Internet Threats Trend Report for Q1-2013, emphasizing that there's been an
...SPAMfighter News 2013/5/9
Regions Bank are Targeted by Phishing Email Campaign
Customers of Region Bank, Birmingham (Alabama, US), are presently targeted by phishing email scam that's made to con them into handling over their
...SPAMfighter News 2013/5/8
Mozilla Alleges that Gamma Disguised Own Spyware as Firefox
Mozilla the maker of Firefox has asserted that United Kingdom based Gamma International is selling FinFisher a spyware program by disguising it to appear
...SPAMfighter News 2013/5/8
Bogus Anti-virus Scammers Pretend to be Microsoft
According to Webroot, its security researchers have noticed a rise in bogus anti-virus (AV) campaigns, which exploit Microsoft's name and
...SPAMfighter News 2013/5/7
Solera Networks: Malicious Spam E-mails Reporting ‘Confirmation’ Abounded in April 2013
Spam messages declaring to link an invoice, shopping receipt, airline ticket, or any other type of verification document was the prominent type of malware
...SPAMfighter News 2013/5/7
ESET Releases Avatar Rootkit’s Analytical Study
Three months back (February 2013), ESET the Internet security company became aware about one fascinating rootkit namely 'Avatar', which Russian cyber-crime
...SPAMfighter News 2013/5/6
United States DoL Website Dispersing Malware to Innocent Internauts
The United Sates Department of Labor (DoL) Website is the recent high-level government website to be infected by cybercriminals. Researchers at a number of
...SPAMfighter News 2013/5/6
A Spam Campaign Imitating PayPal Launched by Amerika, says Dynamoo’s Blog
A fresh PayPal, the world renowned e-payment service, themed spam email operation initiated by Amerika Crew, a group of cybercriminals that's supposed to be
...SPAMfighter News 2013/5/4
Scam E-Mails Pledging Cash and Motorcar Circulating Online
E-mail posing as message from BMW the motorcar manufacturer announcing a cash prize along with one fabulous new BMW for the e-mail recipient within what's
...SPAMfighter News 2013/5/4
PDF Flaws Abused within APT Attacks, States Trend Micro
Cyber-criminals frequently exploit vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader for planting malicious software onto people's PCs, say security researchers from Trend
...SPAMfighter News 2013/5/3
Spam Mails Abuse Mother’s Day on the Internet
BitDefender is warning of spam mails themed around Mother's Day (coming 12th May 2013), as circulating online while attacking unwitting Internauts through
...SPAMfighter News 2013/5/3
Security Investigators Analyze Fresh E-threat Contaminating Apache Web-servers
Researchers from ESET a security company and Sucuri a Web-security company recently examined one fresh threat that has been impacting Apache
...SPAMfighter News 2013/5/2
Users Bewared Suspected Phishing Email Attacks, Living Social Site Hacked
Security experts are urging Living Social website users to be careful of phishing emails
...SPAMfighter News 2013/5/2
Inland Revenue Alerts of False Telephone Calls and Fraudulent E-mails
Inland Revenue is alerting New Zealand's taxpayers to remain vigilant about fake telephone calls and scam e-mails informing recipients that they're entitled
...SPAMfighter News 2013/5/1
Wave of Online Frauds Follow Boston Tragedy, Reports Trend Micro
According to Trend Micro the security company, after the terrible bombing of April 15, 2013 during the marathon race at Boston (USA), cyber-criminals have
...SPAMfighter News 2013/5/1
Trend Micro Uncovers Trojan Vernot in Fresh Version
Researchers from Trend Micro the security company report about one fresh version of Vernot a notorious Trojan, which they've analyzed and nicknamed
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/30
Malware rather than Authorities’ Censorship Blocked Baptist Website
Malicious software was recently found through Army PCs that prevented visiting www.SBC.net the website designed for Southern Baptist Convention. The site's
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/30
Cyber-criminal Doubted as Stealing Huge Sums Held, Assert Russian Officials
Department K, the cyber-security investigatory division of the Russian government along with Group-IB a security company said they had averted an enormous
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/27
C&C Servers Reconfigured to Make Them More Advanced, Warns FireEye
FireEye, which recently released a report -"The Advanced Cyber Attack Landscape," describes cyber-criminals as doing better in bypassing
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/27
Hacking Key to 52% of all Info-thefts during 2012, Reports Verizon
Verizon the security company in its Data Breach Investigation Report of 2013, prepared after studying 47,000 documented hacking cases and 621 reported
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/26
Trusteer Spots TorRAT Info-stealer in Fresh Version
Trusteer the security company has just uncovered TorRAT in an unusual version, the malware that
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/26
Spam Amounts Represented Increase during February then Stability during March 2013, Reports Kaspersky
'The Spam in March 2013 Report,' which Kaspersky Lab the security company prepared and released recently, reveals an enormous rise in spam traffic during
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/25
Vodafone-Spoofed E-mails in Circulation, Cautions Telecom Giant
Renowned telecommunication company Vodafone Australia has issued an alert to subscribers that malevolent ...
SPAMfighter News 2013/4/25
Erstwhile HostGator Worker Charged with Loading Backdoors onto more than 2,700 Servers
Authorities have arrested 29-yr-old Eric Gunnar Gisse, resident of San Antonio, Texas a man formerly working for HostGator a web-hosting company on charges
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/24
Malware Served from Fake SourceForge Website; Zscaler
Cyber-criminals frequently make replication of various prominent sites online for distributing their malicious wares. An absolute instance is the
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/24
Malware Detected Attacking Software used for Trading Stocks Online
Security researchers at Group-IB the Russia-based cyber-crime investigation firm, lately, discovered one fresh malware strain capturing credentials when
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/23
Symantec’s ISTR Claims that Targeted Attacks Surged in 2012
Internauts are experiencing less junk emails but far more targeted attacks, as accords to statistics compiled by security firm Symantec in its' recently
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/23
ATCO Warns the Masses about the Email Scam
ATCO Group has been informing about the email scam which is presently dispersing across the Internet and using the Group's name in the scam campaign, stated
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/22
Spammers Start Campaigns Exploiting Boston Marathon Blasts
Soon as people across the globe came to know about the bomb blasts at the marathon race in Boston on 15th April, 2013, Kaspersky the security company issued
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/22
Nearly All Counterfeit Games and Game-Hacks Conceal Malicious Software, Reports AVG
AVG recently published one new insight report according to which, 90% of counterfeit replicas and game thefts of widely played Internet games, channeled
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/20
New Crime Toolkits Expected Shortly Targeting Brazilian Internauts
According to researchers from Trend Micro the security company, Internauts in Brazil, since some time, have been attacked with Bancos an information
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/20
MMPC Identifies One Fresh Trojan Installer
Security investigators from MMPC (Microsoft malware Protection Center) recently detected one crafty
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/19
Supermarket Chain Schnuck Markets Suffers Major Security Breach
St. Louis-situated supermarket chain Schnuck Markets Inc. has disclosed that the information of clients debit and credit cards have been infected due to the
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/19
Web-infiltrators break into WordPress through Botnet Designed for Capturing Login Details
Hackers have been found attacking WordPress the prominent blogging forum with the help of a botnet designed for seizing login details related to
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/18
Colossal Malware Attacks Strike Staples Corporate Systems
McAfee, Sophos and Symantec all recently cautioned as regards a novice and additionally dangerous kind of the Changeup virus detected in last November. Last
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/18
‘Redpill’ Spyware Used for Seizing Information from Indian Internet-users
Symantec the security company warns of one spam outbreak that recently targeted people surfing online in India. Laced with a harmful file attachment
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/17
Thirty Five Gaming Firms Attacked over 4 Years Long Period
Kaspersky Lab the Russian security company reports that a maximum of 35 gaming entities fell to hackers' attack, with the miscreants understandably being
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/17
Spam Evolving to Ever-Greater Risk, Finds Study
According to AV-Test an independent security company, which has just published one study titled "Spam-More Dangerous that Ever Before," while we
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/17
Dr. Web Grabs Control of Backdoor Botnet from Cybercriminals
Russian security firm Doctor Web has managed to take control of a botnet nicknamed BackDoor.Bulknet.739. At its peak the botnet had the potentiality to
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/16
Phishing E-mail Scam Hits UTSA
Specialists from Avast warn students and employees at UTSA (University of Texas at San Antonio) of Texas, USA towards being careful with one
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/16
Cyber-criminals send Scam E-mails Masquerading as any Service Provider
Cyber-criminals apply different tricks for duping Internauts into giving away the credentials of their e-mail A/Cs. A latest one involves dispatching
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/15
New Ransomware Campaign Targeting German Internet Users Found
Security researchers from Sophos have encountered a new ransomware campaign that targets Internauts from Germany.
A message seems
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/12
Exploit Kit Phoenix’s Developer Caught, Report Russian Police
Russian cops lately arrested 23-yr-old Andrey Alexandrov, the man going by the handle AlexUdakov on many online forums, under the accusation he developed
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/12
Business Contact Information Stolen and Sold on Underground Forum
Specialists from Webroot the security company reveal that authorities have found cyber thieves earning money from sale of business contact information that
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/11
New Malicious Scam Fooled Skype Users
Many Skype subscribers are becoming victim by new Internet scam targeting them with malware-ridden web links, as per the security experts of security firm
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/11
LinkedIn Issues Security Patches to Plug Loopholes
Investigators from a Spanish security company named Internet Security Auditors have discovered a number of software flaws within LinkedIn the business
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/10
Gang behind Creation of Trojan Carberp Exposed
The SBU (Security Service of Ukraine) along with FSB (Russian Federal Security Service) launched an operation wherein the two jointly arrested the gang
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/10
‘Kovter’ Ransomware making Fake Police Notification Detected
Kafeine, an independent investigator of malicious software has said that one fresh ransomware program known as Kovter, which relies on fake police
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/9
Malware that Monitors Mouse Clicks to Escape Detection Uncovered by FireEye
Security vendor FireEye Researchers have disclosed a new Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) that uses many detection evasion methods, having the monitoring of
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/9
Facebookers Targeted with Fresh Phishing Technique
Trend Micro warns that cyber-criminals, by executing one fresh phishing e-mail campaign,
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/8
Ladysmith RCMP Urges Internauts to watch out for RBC-spoofed Phishing E-mails
British Columbia, Canada-situated Ladysmith's Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is cautioning residents for being vigilant about one ...
SPAMfighter News 2013/4/8
CRA Requests Taxpayer to be Careful of Tax-Themed Scams
Almost every year, thousands of Canadians are falling for this scam emails intending to be from Canadian Revenue AGENCY (CRA), the official Canadian taxing
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/6
Webroot finds Most Enterprises Encountering Web-borne Assaults During 2012
Webroot the security vendor recently conducted a survey, which reveals that 8 in 10 business organizations encountered a minimum of one Web-related assault
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/6
Spammers Misuse Google Translate for Evading Anti-spam Filters
According to security researchers from Barracuda Labs, spammers in their latest ruse are using Google Translate to elude ...
SPAMfighter News 2013/4/5
Internauts, Beware of Spam Capitalizing on Approaching Holiday
In a warning from researchers of BitDefender, Internauts are asked to be wary of fresh e-mail-borne ...
SPAMfighter News 2013/4/5
Be Cautious of Scam ‘Google’ Email
Internet users have been alarmed of an email in which scammers in the name of Internet giant, Google is trying to obtain all personal details from them, as
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/4
Spam Mail Campaign Tricks with Wedding Invitation Bait
Cyber-criminals don't ever appear drained off ideas towards tricking Internauts and making them install malicious programs, warns ThreatTrack Security Inc.,
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/4
Bulk of “Unidentified” Malware Delivered to Systems through Web-based Attacks
The lot of "unidentified" malware is transported through Web-based attacks, proxies and
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/3
Internauts Warned of M15 Spoofed Fake E-mails
M15 a security service provider in UK is asking everyone for remaining aware about scam electronic mails posing as coming from it, published
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/3
Evernote used for Supporting Trojan Stealing Data; Trend Micro
At Trend Micro, Nikko Tamana a Threat Response Engineer has said that certain cyber-criminal gang is using Evernote, a widely used data-sharing service as
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/2
Nova Scotia RCMP Warns Internet Users Regarding Online Scams
Nova Scotia Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) claims that fraudster is trying to con money from unwary computer users by "fining" them
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/2
Cybercriminals Depend on Zendesk Hack to Attract Users to Malicious Pharmacy Sites
Spammers are dispersing news regarding latest Zendesk data breach to con users so that they can visit shady websites that provide pharmaceutical products,
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/1
Tackling Malicious Content inside Counterfeit Software can mean $144bn in Losses during 2013
IDC a research company, which recently conducted one study named "The Dangerous World of Counterfeit and Pirated Software" for Microsoft, found
...SPAMfighter News 2013/4/1
McAfee Identifies Fresh Trojan that Attacked POS Systems
One fresh PC Trojan that can seize debit/credit card information by infecting POS (point-of-sale) machines, of late, has been exposed, state investigators
...SPAMfighter News 2013/3/30
AlienVault Describes Sykipot Malware Assaults in Detail
Investigators from AlienVault a security company has just explained how malware assaults with the
...SPAMfighter News 2013/3/30
February 2013 Sees Most Cyber-attacks against Google Coming from Spammers
Kaspersky Labs, which has lately published its report on February 2013 spam, highlights that Google fell to maximum attacks by spammers during February
...SPAMfighter News 2013/3/29
Dr. Web Uncovers Fresh Mac Malware, Trojan Yontoo
Experts at Doctor Web the security company, of late, unearthed one fresh Mac Trojan known as Trojan.Yontoo.1 that compromises computers running Mac OS X
...SPAMfighter News 2013/3/29
‘South Korea’ Blames ‘North’ for Attacks through Chinese Malware
The largest-ever online assault against PCs of South Korea, within a span of 2-yrs, utilized a China-made malware, one early investigation has discovered
...SPAMfighter News 2013/3/28
Trojan Masked Free AV Software Targets 23 Brazilian Banks
A banking Trojan dispersing as the well-known free anti-virus (AV) solution from Avast is found to be
...SPAMfighter News 2013/3/28
Analysts Examine Malicious Software Utilized within South Korean Assaults
Plentiful reports are being published in connection with recent cyber-assaults, which paralyzed the websites of many financial institutions as well as TV
...SPAMfighter News 2013/3/27
CrySyS Describes Long-term Cyber-spying Malware just Discovered
Researchers belonging to CrySyS Lab a Hungary-situated security company recently unearthed one cyber-espionage scheme, which covered ten years-or-more of
...SPAMfighter News 2013/3/27
Man Detained for Alleged Bank Heist
On March 19, 2013, SOCA (Serious Organized Crime Agency) and PCeU (Police Central eCrime Unit) whose officers were listening to a speech at Benhurst
...SPAMfighter News 2013/3/26
SSU Warned 25,000 Students and Staff Members of Data Security Breach
According to University Officials, Salem State University (Boston, Massachusetts, US) has warned around 25,000 former and current students and staff members
...SPAMfighter News 2013/3/26
Computer Virus to be Blamed for Computer Failures in South Korea
According to an official close to the ongoing investigation reported that a computer virus and not a
...SPAMfighter News 2013/3/25
Ramnit Bot Returns with Improved Anti-detection Capabilities: MMPC
According to MMPC (Microsoft malware Protection Center), the creators of Botnet Ramnit - software
...SPAMfighter News 2013/3/25
China’s Cyber Security Attacked by Dangerous Threat, Claims CNERT
Chinese national computer monitoring center, called, National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team Coordination Center (CNCERT) launched a
...SPAMfighter News 2013/3/23
Massive Cyber-attack Strikes Telenor, Major Telecommunications Company of Norway
According to local media, Telenor the telecommunications giant of Norway has been struck with an advanced cyber-attack; thus reported softpedia.com dated
...SPAMfighter News 2013/3/23
Chameleon Botnet, Generator of Click Frauds, Steals $6m
According to experts from security research and traffic-examining company Spider.io, one new botnet known as Chameleon is actively pilfering over $6m every
...SPAMfighter News 2013/3/22
Bitdefender Warns Internet Users on Fake Bank of America Campaigns
Security firm, Bitdefender is alarming Internauts on the numerous scam e-mails dispersed by the Bank of America since a random hacker disclosed the details
...SPAMfighter News 2013/3/22
“Express Shipment Notification” Junk Messages Circulating Online, Cautions Sophos
Sophos the security company cautions that spam mails bearing an all-time familiar title "Express Shipment Notification" have been spotted on the
...SPAMfighter News 2013/3/21
Phishing E-mail for Grabbing Account Login Details within Google Documents: MX Lab
According to MX Lab, security researchers have detected phishing e-mails that are designed
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