Botnets
An Inconvenient Truth: Spam Sells Lots of Sex and Drugs
By: Davey Winder
It is the question that everyone who stops to think about the amount of spam they get asks at least once: does anyone actually buy this stuff? The answer, it seems, is that 29 percent of us do and we are buying sex and drugs...
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By: Davey Winder
It is the question that everyone who stops to think about the amount of spam they get asks at least once: does anyone actually buy this stuff? The answer, it seems, is that 29 percent of us do and we are buying sex and drugs...
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5 million fake news spams per hour
By: Stephen Withers
There's a good chance that you've seen at least one of the spoofed CNN or MSNBC spam messages that are doing the rounds - as many as 5 million of them are being sent per hour.
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By: Stephen Withers
There's a good chance that you've seen at least one of the spoofed CNN or MSNBC spam messages that are doing the rounds - as many as 5 million of them are being sent per hour.
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What is the speed of spam? 7.8 billion messages per hour!
By: Davey Winder
The key findings of the latest Marshal Threat Research and Content Engineering (TRACE) report for the first half of 2008 have just been published. Unsurprisingly, they make for some pretty ugly reading...
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By: Davey Winder
The key findings of the latest Marshal Threat Research and Content Engineering (TRACE) report for the first half of 2008 have just been published. Unsurprisingly, they make for some pretty ugly reading...
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Rustock takes spambot gold with Olympic surge
By: Davey Winder
When it comes to endurance races, the Srizbi spambot takes some beating as far as distributing the most malicious spam across the planet is concerned. Thanks to an Olympic surge from new kid on the bot race blocks, Rustock, has sprinted past the old man of spam to take a dubious gold...
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By: Davey Winder
When it comes to endurance races, the Srizbi spambot takes some beating as far as distributing the most malicious spam across the planet is concerned. Thanks to an Olympic surge from new kid on the bot race blocks, Rustock, has sprinted past the old man of spam to take a dubious gold...
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F****** Microsoft and that W***** George Bush help boost spam traffic
By: Davey Winder
The cybercriminal gangs that control the Rustock Botnet have enlisted the help of George Bush, Microsoft, Paris Hilton, Spongebob and some choice expletives in order to push its share of global spam traffic up by 21.5 percent in the last month. So why am I trying to suppress a giggle?
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By: Davey Winder
The cybercriminal gangs that control the Rustock Botnet have enlisted the help of George Bush, Microsoft, Paris Hilton, Spongebob and some choice expletives in order to push its share of global spam traffic up by 21.5 percent in the last month. So why am I trying to suppress a giggle?
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10 million zombies go after Google and Microsoft users brains
By: Davey Winder
No longer the stuff of low-budget movies, zombies are invading the Internet: around 10 million of them in the last three months alone. The horror is revealed in a new report which shows that Google Adwords and Microsoft users brains are amongst the most sought after zombie food...
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By: Davey Winder
No longer the stuff of low-budget movies, zombies are invading the Internet: around 10 million of them in the last three months alone. The horror is revealed in a new report which shows that Google Adwords and Microsoft users brains are amongst the most sought after zombie food...
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Spam back on the menu as botnet creating email triples in one week
By: Davey Winder
The volume of spam which exists not to sell you stuff, but simply to add your computer to a botnet collective has tripled in just one week. If that weren't worrying enough, it seems that the Srizbi botnet is now responsible for an incredible 46 percent of all spam being distributed.
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By: Davey Winder
The volume of spam which exists not to sell you stuff, but simply to add your computer to a botnet collective has tripled in just one week. If that weren't worrying enough, it seems that the Srizbi botnet is now responsible for an incredible 46 percent of all spam being distributed.
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The world must unite to fight malware, says OECD
By: Stuart Corner
The OECD has called for the setting up of a global partnership to combat malware and for Internet service providers and domain name registrars to develop common codes of national and international practice.
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By: Stuart Corner
The OECD has called for the setting up of a global partnership to combat malware and for Internet service providers and domain name registrars to develop common codes of national and international practice.
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Srizbi sending half the world's spam
By: Stephen Withers
The Srizbi botnet is responsible for half of all spam, according a content security company.
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By: Stephen Withers
The Srizbi botnet is responsible for half of all spam, according a content security company.
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Watch out for the “Free 101 Mini-Articles” email scam
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Spammers sending messages laden with malware, be it spyware, viruses or programs to trap our computers in nefarious botnets are getting trickier and trickier in their attempts to get us to not only click on an email, but open the attachment. The latest one is as evil as ever, and could fool plenty of people into clicking.
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Spammers sending messages laden with malware, be it spyware, viruses or programs to trap our computers in nefarious botnets are getting trickier and trickier in their attempts to get us to not only click on an email, but open the attachment. The latest one is as evil as ever, and could fool plenty of people into clicking.
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Kraken botnet evolving, says PC Tools
By: Stephen Withers
A significant new variant of the Kraken malware has been identified by security researchers.
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By: Stephen Withers
A significant new variant of the Kraken malware has been identified by security researchers.
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You have been photographed naked: you are being sued; you have a tax refund coming.
By: Stuart Corner
Cyber criminals are becoming increasingly inventive in their efforts to get the unsuspecting to give away personal details or install malware onto their systems.
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By: Stuart Corner
Cyber criminals are becoming increasingly inventive in their efforts to get the unsuspecting to give away personal details or install malware onto their systems.
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