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Mass e-mailing is no longer hip for hackers. Spam attacks are now yesterday’s news and have been replaced with targeted attacks. There are two predominant reasons for the switch: First, mass mailing malware is noisy and slow; it typically takes considerable time for an e-mail to work its way across the Internet. This global lag [...]

Spammers have set a new benchmark for mockery, hijacking PCs inside drug giant Pfizer to send out adverts for the company’s most famous product, Viagra, it has been claimed. According to US botnet tracking company Support Intelligence, a total of 138 IP addresses inside the company’s various networks have had to be blacklisted after being [...]

Sophos, a world leader in IT security and control, has revealed the most prevalent malware threats causing problems for computer users around the world during August 2007. The figures, compiled by Sophos’s global network of monitoring stations, show a dramatic drop in malware spreading in the form of email attachments, with just one infected message [...]

Some promising news on the spam front that no doubt none of you had noticed: spammers evidently have all but given up on the once highly effective gimmick of sending their love cures and get-rich-quick missives via PDF. According to security specialists at Sophos, spam messages sent as a PDF attachment has dropped off the [...]

First they pretended to send you an e-card. Then they offered you a link to a spectacular YouTube video. Now they’re promising you a free new video of Beyoncé. According to a report issued yesterday by security vendor SophosLabs, phishers have launched another new wave of spam attacks, this one targeted at music fans. Many [...]

Penny stocks and sexual enhancing drugs are found to be the most common subjects of spam messages. A report published by BitDefender on the propositions most commonly solicited by image and text spam, has found that pump-and-dump penny stocks were the most common theme during the first half of 2007. Image spam is now the [...]

Consumers are being inundated with last-ditch, mass spamming efforts as companies seek permission to keep sending them messages after a new anti-spam law kicks in. The Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act comes into effect on Wednesday, and after that date commercial promotions from New Zealand can not be sent by email or text unless they have [...]

Spammers have become very creative. They now send under all types of false pretenses to get you to open the email. It amazes me how much creativity they have. Why don’t they use their creativity in constructive ways? Don’t you think they would make more money if they used their mind in something constructive way [...]