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Storm Worm Attacks
The subject matter varies in the attempt to get people to download the bad exe file. Sample: "Virus Activity Detected! Dear Customer, Our robot has detected an abnormal activity from your IP adress on sending e-mails. Probably it is connected with...
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Mon, Jul 9 2007 10:06
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Spam Trojan Uses Generated Yahoo and Hotmail Accounts
Security company BitDefender reports a new threat, dubbed Trojan.Spammer.HotLan.A, using automatically generated Yahoo and Hotmail accounts to send out spam email. “There are only about 500 or so new accounts being created every hour,” commented head...
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Mon, Jul 9 2007 1:25
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tashi
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OPERATION BOT ROAST
FBI Press Release: Over 1 Million Potential Victims of Botnet Cyber Crime "Today the Department of Justice and FBI announced the results of an ongoing cyber crime initiative to disrupt and dismantle “botherders” and elevate the public’s cyber security...
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Wed, Jun 13 2007 16:53
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FBI Takes Down Botnet
ABC News reports the FBI has identified 1 million computer addresses that have been hacked by criminals who hijack other people’s computers, turn them into servers and use them to send out massive amounts of spam and spyware. http://www.abcnews.go.com...
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Wed, Jun 13 2007 13:50
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International anti-spam Alliance
Bot nets are increasingly used to spam, install adware on victims' machines, and level denial-of-service (Ddos) attacks at online companies as part of an extortion scheme; making bot networks a major internet threat. Earlier this year Israeli anti...
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Wed, Nov 1 2006 13:38
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tashi
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Nigerian 419 Scammers
As scams go Phishing is way up there. However, the Nigerian Scam might claim the long distance runner award having been around since the early 1980's under Successive Governments of Nigeria. On Monday October 2006, The Register's Jan Libbenga...
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Tue, Oct 17 2006 0:08
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