Cyber Criminals Selling Millions of U.S military email addresses

Cyber Criminals Selling Millions of U.S military email addresses Web based underground market service currently selling Millions of harvested U.S government and U.S military harvested emails addresses to potential spammers, and find out just how easy it is to purchase that kind of data within the...

Spammers Using Dropbox to Push Fake Pills, Malware

Spammers have jumped on the Dropbox bandwagon to push rogue-pharmaceuticals and malware, according to a report by Symantec’s Nick Johnston. Dropbox, a free, cloud-based file-sharing service, has a couple of features that make it attractive to spammers and malware-writers. One feature allows Dropb...

Steve Jobs Scams Continue

There is another Steve Jobs related scam floating around the Internet. According to Trend Micro, this one comes in the form of an email sent from a fake charity organization cleverly titled, Steve Jobs Charity Fund. The email calls on its recipients to donate money to the fund, which claims, rath...

URL Shortening Services Used in Large Malware Attack

Spammers have been exploiting anonymous URL shortening services for a while now but according to a post on Symantec’s MessageLabs Intelligence Blog, some have been using the technique as part of a large malware attack. Using five different URL shortening websites, the attackers sent mangled links...

Researchers Graph Social Networks to spot Spammers

Spammers, it turns out, aren’t like everyone else: they have fewer friends. That, according to new research by Microsoft scientists who have developed a new method of distinguishing attacker-created spam email accounts from legitimate ones. The new finding, from researchers Yinglian Xie and Fang ...

Spammers Chase Kate and Will With Engagement Ring Offer

Spammers find a way to tap in on most major world events, from celebrity deaths to tsunamis. So it’s no surprise that the boys and girls with the botnets are trying to cash in on the biggest news event of the moment: the royal wedding of Prince William of Great Britan to Kate Middleton. Securelis...

Spammers steal 400k user identities from Irish recruiter !

Job seekers' identities compromised in massive data breach. The Irish job website RecruitIreland.com was hacked last week, resulting in breached systems and the theft of the credentials of 400,000 users. The website was temporarily taken offline after the breach was discovered last Tuesday. A...

Hackers Steal 100,000 E-mail !

Two attackers were more than 100,000 e-mail users Apple iPad, including politicians and famous journalists, federal prosecutors said Tuesday notifying the prosecution of men. AT & T has revealed a vulnerability of months ago, and U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman said there was evidence that the two men...

Spammers Moving to Social Networks

Its not just Wall Street giants like Goldman Sachs that see dollar signs hovering over Facebook. Spammers are hopping on the social networking giant to fool users, according to a report from security firm Cloudmark. Spammers are using botnets to send a barrage of malicious e-mail spam that mimic...

Wordpress Update Fixes Malicious Author Vulnerability

An update to the popular WordPress blogging platform fixes a known security hole that could have enabled a malicious contributor to gain wider control over the blog to which he or she contributed. WordPress 3.0.2 was posted on Tuesday. The privilege escalation hole was described as of “moderate”...

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...