bits and bytes : Spam-Phish

Storm Worm Attacks

tashi — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:06:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Spam Trojan Uses Generated Yahoo and Hotmail Accounts

tashi — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 07:25:00 GMT

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...(read more)

OPERATION BOT ROAST

tashi — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:53:00 GMT

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...(read more)

FBI Takes Down Botnet

tashi — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:50:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Major Spammer Arrested

tashi — Thu, 31 May 2007 17:18:00 GMT

The SPAMHAUS PROJECT- Spamhaus News. http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=611 "On May 30, 2007 Robert Alan Soloway , one of the most persistent professional spammers, was indicted by a grand jury in Seattle, Washington, on charges that include...(read more)

International anti-spam Alliance

tashi — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 18:38:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Nigerian 419 Scammers

tashi — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 05:08:00 GMT

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...(read more)