Archive for the 'Spam and phishing' Category

On Thursday, security researchers reported a warning about The Waledac worm which is about to gear up a scam campaign related to the July 4 holiday.
As antivirus vendor ESET senior researcher Pierre-Marc Bureau revealed, the worm, which is known to bloom out updates to previously compromised computers, was discovered to register at least 18 domain […]

Security software, called SecureTwitter, is the latest browser add-on released by Finjan. Because Twitter became more and more popular by computer hackers, this product was created to scan links and warn if they follow a rogue page.
The SecureTwitter contains plug-ins for both the Firefox and Internet Explorer and the purpose of this software […]

Have you ever wondered how come people are able to register malicious websites and keep those going without facing any legal issues? Roots of some frauds are difficult to track because not every country supports international collaboration, but November 2008 brings justice to our side.
EstDomains, Inc. was known as home of many malicious websites. Fraudulent […]

What attracts the most readers, the most views and the most downloads? The answer is always the same: it’s the most recent and the most urgent problems. What’s the biggest buzz of the last week? Barack Obama elected for the president of the United States is still the one that attracts interest of many people […]

Almost every computer user knows how difficult it is to remove malware, but do you know how difficult it is to make a malicious website to infect computers? According to experts at Panda Security, it’s not difficult at all. They discovered a tool dedicated to creating fraudulent business. It might look scary at the first […]

If you and your friend have email accounts provided by the same ISP or you got those on the same webmail system, you will receive different amounts of spam messages. And the number of spam even might be uninfluenced by sharing email address online. The newest research once again confirmed the fact that spambots often […]

MessageLabs have just published results of worldwide email research. Those indicated Switzerland as the country that is attacked by spammers the most. In fact, average person in Switzerland receives 10% more spam than average web user from some other country. According to the results one email message in 134 is infected with a virus while […]

Have you ever wondered what could happen if you’d replied to every “Buy V1agra” message, clicked on every link offering weight loss pills or video of Cristina Aguilera naked? Thanks to experiment organized by McAfee, we know what happens.
McAfee recruited 50 volunteers in 10 countries for a job every security expert tells you to avoid […]

Although Nigerian scam is one of the most known and most recognized online frauds, there are still people who get into this trap and lose money. But computer users are not the ones to blame – scammers usually make the malicious scheme look so real that even the biggest skeptics fail to resist.
The name “Nigerian […]

Spammers are not the most popular persons in a world, but $6 million fine one of them has to pay still makes you raise eyebrows. But it’s only until you know what he was punished for. So what a human should do to receive a penalty like that?
The name “Consumerpromotionscenter.com” is well known for MySpace […]