Archive for the 'Spam and phishing' Category

Olympic Games and all the topics related to Olympics draw readers’ attention quickly. What countries chose to boycott? What’s happening in Tibet? What had Dalai Lama said in the newest interview? Would you open Olympics themed newsletter even though you hadn’t subscribed it? MessageLabs have reported increasing number of Olympics related attacks spreading via email.
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Security experts warn of new scheme of cyber crimes: crime-as-a-service. Modern hacker is not some smart guy who compromises websites and creates sophisticated tools; modern hacker is the one who buys ready-to-use tools and employs them to gain profit or for other reasons. Malware tools have been for sale for some time now, however, they […]

In spite of growing popularity of computer security tools, the numbers of phishing attacks keep growing as well. You could do the math and discover that more security tools and more education eliminate phishing attacks and malware, but things are not that simple. According to resent research, 3.6 million of people suffered from phishing attacks […]

Web security analysts have found that around 85% of all the spam is spread by merely 6 botnets. A bot is essentially a computer, which is remotely controlled to perform certain tasks (in this case - spam) without the user's knowledge or consent, a botnet is a "net" of such bots.
At number one we have […]

The results of new research revealed the fact that infected email messages are more widespread in countries where internet is still gaining popularity. The worst results were seen in India where the use of internet is increasing. Security levels were much better in countries where people use internet for years. These facts have simple explanation: […]

Several security research companies have warned PC users about the upcoming Storm, due to take off on 14 February. Love is not all Storm worm delivers of course, it also has got some nasty attachments with romantic names (i.e. withlove.exe) ready for you in an e-mails entitled “I would dream” or “Memories of you”.
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Online shopping is maybe dangerous if you use insecure money transfer system. Sometimes even reputable payments systems are corrupted or web browsers get redirected and this may lead into losing money. However, some websites are initially malicious and can take your money without hesitation.
Isoftpay.com is infamous payment system that is being related to malware creators. […]

According to security experts, replying to phishing mail can be dangerous. There have been reports about spam mail, supposedly sent by old high school/college friends and whatnot, wondering what the recipient might be doing with his life, since it has been such a long time and…They miss you. Well, asking to refresh your recollection might […]

The new Windows instant messenger program has been released to private beta-testers last week. The new version will have a new security feature - Anti-SPIM (spam over instant messages).
There has been feedback that the new feature will be annoying at best, but possibly even dangerous. The point is that hackers may and do acquire users' […]

Light up some candles, since you've just missed Storm's birthday. To those of you who don't know what Storm is, well, it is the virus with the biggest botnet (essentially, a group of zombie computers controlled remotely) since a lot earlier in the decade. It is assumed that Storm's botnet has at least 1,000,000 PCs.
Storm […]