20-fold increase in fraudulent spam
In Q3 2011, the percentage of fraudulent emails in spam traffic increased twenty times, rising from 0.1 per cent last quarter to 2 per cent of all spam traffic in Q3. The …
GFI Software cloud-based anti-malware and anti-spam email security
GFI Software announced that GFI MailEssentials Complete Online, a cloud-based anti-malware and anti-spam email security solution, is now available to small and medium …
Latest spam trends and predictions for the end of the year
As the percentage of fraudulent emails received by users in the third quarter of 2011 has risen sharply and they represented 2 percent of all received spam emails, Kaspersky …
Carbonite privacy blunder results in spam
Popular online backup service Carbonite has made another privacy misstep. Computerworld blogger Richi Jennings, a self styled “anti-spam wonk”, has discovered that …
How to create effective CAPTCHAs
Half a year ago, a team of researchers from Stanford University’s Security Laboratory has managed to build a computer program able to solve audio CAPTCHAs and to define …
Fake Apple notifications lead to phishing site
When changes are made to an Apple ID account, Apple sends a notification about it to the user so that he can react promptly if the changes weren’t made by him. …
Cyber crooks migrate to “ce.ms” free domains
Online scammers and malware peddlers often exhibit locust-like behavior as they migrate from one type of free domains to another in order to evade detection by spam filters …
Facebook spammers trick users into sharing anti-CSRF tokens
Facebook spammers have already used a number of different approaches to make users inadvertently propagate their scams, and most of them fall into the social engineering …
Fake DHL delivery notification carries info-stealer Trojan
Malware peddlers have once again started a spam run that consists of emails purportedly sent by DHL. They spoofed the sender information, making it look like the email was …
Spam gang uses own URL shorteners
URL shortening services are deservedly popular with Internet users, but unfortunately they are loved by cyber crooks and spammers as well. While regular users appreciate …
Facebook Lottery scam emails making rounds
Offline crooks have had a lot of success with the bogus lottery winning letter scam, so it should come as no surprise it is often “translated” into an email and …
Scammers asking for donations for bogus Steve Jobs charity
Before his death, Apple CEO Steve Jobs was well known for not giving donations to charities or setting up foundations for various humanitarian causes, so it may come as a …
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