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Cyber Criminal Underground: The Comics Edition
The criminal underworld is an insular community shrouded in secrecy. That’s helped lend an air of mystique to cyber crime. See also: Bruce Willis in “Die Hard 4: Live Free or Die Hard.”. But it turns out that, like so much else, real life cyber crime is… well… pretty dull. How dull? Comic artist...
Corrected: Facebook Files Suit Against Spammers
Social network Facebook said on Wednesday that it is bringing new suits against individuals accused of using the 500 million person social network to send spam messages and promote non existent products. Correction: This story, as originally run, inaccurately identified the Steven Richter named i...
Spammers 'Gearing Up' Botnets for Holiday Rush
Spammers are pushing out e-mail borne malware at unprecedented rates in an apparent attempt to build up botnets in advance of the busy holiday shopping season, according to a report by Google. Writing on the company’s enterprise blog, Adrian Soghoian and Adam Hollman of the Google Postini Service...
Wanted: E-Mail Addresses
Spammers always need fresh lists of e-mail addresses, says Steve Santorelli of Team Cymru. Supplying them is a lucrative underground business in its own right. The easy availability of such lists and the commodity prices they fetch is a sign of how well developed the underground economy really is...
Spammers Using SHY Character to Hide Malicious URLs
Spammers have jumped on the little-used soft hyphen or SHY character to fool URL filtering devices. According to researchers at Symantec Corp., spammers are larding up URLs for sites they promote with the soft hyphen character, which many browsers ignore. Spammers aren’t shy about jumping humans...
Facebook Apps Pump Out Mobile "Entertainment" Spam
Attacks via social networks continued their steady march on Tuesday, as an untold number of Facebook users unwittingly found themselves caught up in a spam run that pointed friends to premium mobile entertainment Web sites. DEK: A round of spam pumped out by Facebook applications lures users to...
New Survey Scams In Apple's iTunes Social Network
Spammers have been quick off the mark in exploiting Apple’s new iTunes social network to punt survey scams. Read the full article. The Register...
This Week In Security: Black Hat, Spammers and Trusted Rootkits
The old saying that there’s nothing new under the sun is just as true in the security industry as it is anywhere else. Many new attacks are variants or tweaks of existing ones, new software fails in exactly the same way as old software and new technologies crop up to solve problems that are 30...
Spammers Moving to Disposable Domains
Spammers and the botnet operators they’re allied with are continuing to adapt their techniques to evade security technologies, and now are using what amount to disposable domains for their activities. A new report shows that the spammers are buying dozens of domains at a time and moving from one ...
Small ISP Wins $2.6 Mil From Spammers
A small internet service provider has been awarded nearly $2.6m in a lawsuit it filed against a company that sent just under 25,000 spam messages over an 18-month period. Read the full article. The Register...
Spammers Outsource CAPTCHA Decoding
Faced with stricter Internet security measures like CAPTCHAS, some spammers have begun borrowing a page from corporate America’s playbook: they are outsourcing. Read the full article. The New York Times...
Moscow Bombings, TJX Hacker Spur Black Hat Campaigns
Spammers and malware writers have wasted no time in taking advantage of Monday’s bombings in Moscow, opening up a campaign on Twitter to point users to malicious sites. The pair of suicide bombings that hit the Metro system in Moscow Monday morning inevitably led to a flood of messages on Twitter...
Using Spammers' Techniques to Beat Spam
Spammers’ own trickery has been used to develop an “effectively perfect” method for blocking the most common kind of spam, a team of computer scientists claims. Read the full article. New Scientist...
Microsoft Sues Alleged IM Spammers, Phishers
From CNet News Josh Lowensohn Microsoft is bringing out the big guns to combat instant message spam and phishing attacks done to users of its Live Messenger network. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant filed a civil lawsuit Thursday in King County Superior Court in Seattle against Funmobile,...
Be careful what you search for
While search engine optimization SEO is becoming one of the must do’s for companies that are trying to improve theirsite ranking in search engines like Google and Yahoo, it’s also increasingly becoming a trick of the trade for spammers and malware authors looking to drive traffic to their own...
Mail relaying
The remote SMTP server is insufficiently protected against relaying This means that spammers might be able to use your mail server to send their mails to the world. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: smtprelay.nasl 8023 2017-12-07 08:36:26Z teissa $ SMTP Open Relay Test Authors: Michael Meyer...
Symantec Mail Security for Domino Server Relay
SUMMARY Premium Antispam feature of Symantec Mail Security for Domino is vulnerable to allowing a Domino server to be used as an unintended mail relay. This could be used to relay SPAM mail anonymously. Severity Medium can be used to send SPAM Remote | Yes ---|--- Local | No Authentication Requir...
Biz Mail Form 2.x - Unauthorized Mail Relay
Biz Mail Form 2.x - Unauthorized Mail Relay source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12620/info Biz Mail Form is prone to a vulnerability that allows the application to be abused as a mail relay. An attacker can exploit this issue to inject arbitrary SMTP headers by using CR and LF sequences. If...
bitlanceOpera.txt
A vulnerability is found in the Opera browser version 7.51 , which can be exploited by spammers to spoof information displayed in the address bar.Tested on Windows OS. Demonstration HTML source code: ======== begin ======== !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" html...
