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Six botnets are responsible for 85 per cent of all spam, according to an analysis by net security firm Marshal. The Srizbi botnet is reckoned to be the largest single source of spam - accounting for 39 per cent of junk mail messages – followed by the Rustock botnet, responsible for 21 per cent of the spam clogging up users’ inboxes.
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A four-month investigation into the inner workings of the phishing scourge that drives identity theft attacks has uncovered an underground ecosystem of compromised Web servers, do-it-yourself phishing kits, brazen credit card thieves and lazy code copycats.
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How many of us click on the links sent to us by trusted friends? Does the trust implicitly extend to the links they are sending? This trust is precisely what phishers take advantage of. Traditionally phishers have mainly used instant messaging (IM) and email to take advantage of the average user.
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iT security and control firm Sophos is warning computer users to be extra vigilant about any emails which claim to come from financial institutions, no matter how genuine the correspondence appears. The warning comes as customers of a small credit union, Kessler Federal, are being targeted with phishing emails that attempt to cash in on a phishing warning posted on the organisation’s website, and entice worried customers to call a fake phone number to verify their details.
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The 25-year-old’s spamming came to the attention of authorities after an ISP complained of his massive mailings. His activities reportedly began in May 2006. Security vendor Sophos said Shiina acquired a list of 600,000 email addresses for 100,000 yen and earned 2 million yen in advertising for his spamming.
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For the first time since 2004, the three complaints indicators are increasing. In 2007, the FTC received over 810,000 Consumer Sentinel complaints when they had never taken over 700,000 in any previous year. As ever, Identity Theft is the main complaint category.
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It is surely of no surprise, especially to regular readers of our Weblog, that not only banks are targeted by phishing attacks, but nearly anything that can be scammed. We already commented on the rise in attacks targeting virtual worlds and especially massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) in earlier posts.
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The protection system which prevents the multiple automatic registration of fraudulent accounts at GMail is cracked following the same breakage in Yahoo! and Microsoft Live webmail services. The example of spambot work is published by Russian security blog urs-molotoff.blogspot.com.
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Are you interested in lengthening ur manhood? Finding prescription drugs 4 cheep? How about helping a Nigerian diplomat transfer a large amount of money into an off-shore account? Not interested? Good Choice! If you have an email account, chances are that you’ve been asked these questions before (in one form or another) in email messages known as "Spam".
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Even if you haven’t been infected by the charms and socially transmitted diseases of the CyberLover attack, there’s likely plenty of Valentine’s Day love awaiting you in your in-box and online today. As has become their wont to do, the vast array of sleazy cyber-criminals have spent their time sweating through the lonely night by the lights of their computers to create just the right romantic messages to lure the lonely hearted and the love-struck.
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Identity fraud is running rampant. Between corporate breaches and online exploits against individuals, hackers are stealing identities in record numbers and posting it to the Web from all over the country, right? Wrong on all counts, according to new studies of the ID fraud space.
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Storm certainly served as inspiration to yet another growing botnet dubbed Mega-Dik. Speculations are afloat that the said botnet could be behind the recent spamming campaign that floods user inboxes with ads on male enhancements and replica watches.
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Last week I went over to a friend’s house. For purposes of this writing, I will call her Daffodil. As we sat around the kitchen table, Daffodil mentioned she found a strange charge on her Visa statement — billed to a company she never heard of and on a day she didn’t use her card.
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Europe is now the "king of spam," and is responsible for 44 percent of all spam sent worldwide, according to Symantec. The company discussed the findings in its monthly State of Spam (PDF) report, pointing out that Europe has been producing significantly more spam than the US for three months now, and suggesting that the cause could be widely-available broadband.
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A new spear phishing attack is targeting the email accounts of US university students. Researchers at Sans Institute said that the attacks are disguised as messages from administrators performing a ‘database update’.
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