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In an attempt to distribute pieces of malware, a reputed Swiss security blog has reported of a spam e-mail campaign leveraging the name and reputation of Delta...Read Full Article

Fake IRS E-mails Serving Malware to Taxpayers, Cautions Dynamoo Blog
*Spam Filter Service News for May 10, 2013

Security researchers have issued many security warnings for Internauts regarding e-mail scams, which abuse Internal Revenue Service's name. A particular such e-mail fraud tries to dupe Internauts so they'll unwittingly...Read Full Article

Fake E-mails Camouflage the Renowned Citi Group Banking Institution
*Spam Filter Service News for May 7, 2013

BitDefender is asking Internauts for remaining watchful of false Citi Group notices that pose as messages from the 3rd biggest banking institution based within...Read Full Article

Phishers Steal Banking Credentials by Exploiting People’s Curiosity
*Spam Filter Service News for May 2, 2013

According to security researchers from Symantec the security company, there is one new phishing e-mail scam doing the rounds, tricking curious, probable victims so they will surrender personal...Read Full Article

University of Delaware Attacked by the Phishing Email Scams
*Spam Filter Service News for April 12, 2013

University of Delaware (UD) Information Technologies (IT) revealed that new phishing scams that modified the UD Community began arriving in UD inboxes recently, as published in udel.edu on February...Read Full Article

Symantec and Microsoft Take Down Huge Botnet “Bamital”
*Spam Filter Service News for April 9, 2013

Symantec and Microsoft recently demolished 'Bamital,' one huge botnet executing click-fraud operations, with the network being into existence since 2009 in numerous versions, accumulating millions of USDs as false revenue for the bot-masters...Read Full Article

Phony StumbleUpon E-mails Used to Publicize Rogue Pharmacy Websites
*Spam Filter Service News for April 5, 2013

StumbleUpon, a discovery engine that catches web contents to its users are urged to be on the lookout for fake notification and bewared them about the changes made in their e-mail setting; published...Read Full Article

SCDCA Cautioning End-users about Phishing E-mails
*Spam Filter Service News for April 3, 2013

SCDCA warns that online-scammers masquerading as the government organization OCC (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency) or credit monitoring firms are dispatching fraudulent, phishing e-mails while deceiving consumers into giving...Read Full Article

Booking.com Targeted with Spam Attack over the Internet
*Spam Filter Service News for March 29, 2013

As per Webroot a security company, an enormous spam attack is ongoing, masquerading as Booking.com the well-known agency for Internet hotel reservations, as it attempts at persuading recipients to take down one file feigning to provide...Read Full Article

Fed-Ex targeted spam mails overwhelming inboxes
*Spam Filter Service News for March 21, 2013

FedEx clients have been continuously getting spam mails posing as messages from the worldwide service for courier; however, from 2013-beginning, Fed-Ex related malicious e-mail campaigns have gotten more plentiful compared to anytime earlier thus making Symantec and Webroot both security...Read Full Article

Botnet servers feature the maximum number in USA, states McAfee
*Spam Filter Service News for March 18, 2013

As per fresh statistics that McAfee the anti-virus agency recently released, USA is the country with the highest count of computers used to build botnets, worldwide...Read Full Article

Security Researchers Detect Fake ‘eFax Corporate’ Messages Online
*Spam Filter Service News for March 15, 2013

Cyber crooks are applying multiple social engineering tricks in combo for deceiving end-users into clicking on malware-laced e-mails, state researchers from Avira a security company. Actually, Avira's researchers have identified a wave of e-mails, which seem as arriving from Craiglist although dispatched through eFax Corporate...Read Full Article

Kaspersky Reveals E-mail Spam Traffic to Decline by 5-Year Low in 2012
*Spam Filter Service News for March 7, 2013

Spam e-mail traffic has declined comparatively throughout 2012 to strike a 5-year low, as per Kaspersky Lab data. The average spam trafficking in 2012 stands at 1.72, which was comparatively almost 8.2% less against 2011. Such an extended and considerable decline in spam levels is recorded...Read Full Article

BitDefender Cautions Employees about Spam Mails
*Spam Filter Service News for March 4, 2013

BitDefender the security company cautions office employees that they require being watchful of e-mails, which seemingly contain one confidential message meant for them alone. Specialists at the company inform that these e-mails have been crafted for disseminating certain malware that filches user passwords...Read Full Article

Phishing E-mails Target Indiana University
*Spam Filter Service News for February 28, 2013

Phishers are dispatching persuasive appearing e-mails to students, teachers as well as staff members of the Indiana University (IU) at Indiana, USA, so inform UITS (University Information Security) officers and which idsnews.com...Read Full Article

EFTPS Related Scam E-mails Circulating, Cautions GFI Software
*Spam Filter Service News for February 26, 2013

According to the researchers from GFI Software a security company, Internet users require being aware of e-mails that claim to be messages from EFTPS (Electronic Federal Tax Payment System) of the Department of Treasury of United States...Read Full Article

Phishing Scam Hit UWF Students’ Mailboxes Last Semester
*Spam Filter Service News for February 23, 2013

Pensacola, Florida, USA-based UWF (University of West Florida), during the last semester, had students get mass electronic mails, which in reality were efforts towards executing a phishing e-mail scam, revealed officials at the university, according to thevoyager.net dated...Read Full Article

Bot Herders Build Newer Versions of Previous Botnet Waledac
*Spam Filter Service News for February 22, 2013

According to investigators from Symantec the security company, even as law enforcement and security agencies pounced a few times on the notorious Waledac (also called Kelihos) bot-masters, the latter just won't surrender as they're employing fresh variants for establishing still newer networks of the earlier...Read Full Article

Phishing E-Mail Scam that Masquerades as Windows Live Team
*Spam Filter Service News for February 20, 2013

Security researchers from Sophos the security company caution Internet-users about being wary of fake e-mail notifications which seem as originating Windows Live Team...Read Full Article

Bogus LinkedIn Messages Speculate Work Comeback to Pollute Users with Trojans
*Spam Filter Service News for February 19, 2013

Malware authors are again using LinkedIn's popularity and users' social media engagement after the holidays, according to security firm, Bitdefender. Experts deemed that cybercriminals are depending on the truth that after the holiday off, many people are keen to reinforce their connections with the social media...Read Full Article

Spam Focusing on Amazon, PayPal and LinkedIn Subscribers
*Spam Filter Service News for February 15, 2013

According to GFI Software's just published December 2012 VIPRE Report, the most common malicious campaigns across the Internet during the month were spam sent to PayPal, LinkedIn and Amazon consumers while mobile Trojan malware campaigns camouflaged as Android...Read Full Article

Webroot Detects Spam Campaign Having Fake YouTube Link
*Spam Filter Service News for February 13, 2013

Security researchers from Webroot the security company warn that spammers are cheating unwitting Internauts into following false YouTube web-links which take onto a fake medicine site...Read Full Article

Gmail Update Account: Phishing Scam Target Users
*Spam Filter Service News for February 12, 2013

Other phishing scam that depends on the old "account update" theme is presently spreading, trying to con Gmail users into controlling their username and passwords on December 11, 2012...Read Full Article

MX Labs Cautions about Fake E-mails Masquerading as Air Canada
*Spam Filter Service News for February 10, 2013

According to researchers from MX Labs the security company, spam outbreaks, which abuse Air Canada's name and reputation have been detected presently circulating online and hitting inboxes...Read Full Article

Kaspersky Reveals Email Spam Traffic hits 5-Year Low
*Spam Filter Service News for February 8, 2013

Spam email traffic has declined comparatively throughout 2012 to strike a 5-year low, as per Kaspersky Lab data. The average spam trafficking in 2012 stands at 1.72, which was comparatively almost 8.2% less against 2011. Such an extended and considerable decline...Read Full Article

Cyber-thieves Distributing Fake Chrome Updates
*Spam Filter Service News for February 6, 2013

Google has just released its Chrome browser's upgrade that opened opportunity to cyber-criminals for creating fake updates which they're tricking end-users to install in anticipation of filching their Internet-banking credentials, cautions GFI Software, the security company...Read Full Article

Banks Seeking Aid on Iranian Cyber Attacks
*Spam Filter Service News for February 4, 2013

The banking majors in the US are pushing the government to aid them in smashing a long-term Iranian campaign of cyber attacks against American financial institutions, as reported in online.wsj.com on January 15, 2013...Read Full Article

New Spam EMail Supposedly from US Airways Push Malware
*Spam Filter Service News for February 1, 2013

According to an alert by Webroot the security company, cyber-criminals are distributing spam email claiming as confirmation of online-registration with the US Airways while duping Internauts into following malevolent web-links within one most recent spam campaign...Read Full Article

Government Backed Cyber Warfare will Persist during 2013
*Spam Filter Service News for January 11, 2013

Kaspersky the security company has just published its chief forecasts for 2013, according to which, the year will continue to have cyber-warfare that'll be government-backed. Last year (2012), researchers at Kaspersky Lab detected...Read Full Article

Spam Contribution in Total E-mail Falls
*Spam Filter Service News for January 9, 2013

Kaspersky the security company recently published its November Spam Report, which states that the total amount of junk messages within the entire e-mail traffic fell 5.1 points during the month, accounting for a mean 63%. Among this spam...Read Full Article

Citibank Clients Alerted of Phishing E-mails
*Spam Filter Service News for January 7, 2013

A security alert has been issued to Citibank customers that spam hoax e-mails posing as communication from the financial institution are presently hitting inboxes, published zerosecurity.org dated December 15, 2012. Bearing the caption "Your Citi Credit statement is ready to...Read Full Article

Spam Mails Supposedly from FedEx Install Malware
*Spam Filter Service News for January 4, 2013

Security researchers from two security companies claim that a spam outbreak, which uses bogus FedEx notifications, is currently spreading malware, thus published softpedia.com dated December 6, 2012. In the spam campaign the e-mail recipients addressed as...Read Full Article

Spam eMails Spoofing Parcel Shipping Firm yet again Detected
*Spam Filter Service News for November 23, 2012

Security experts are cautioning Internauts about hoax spam email posing as communication from USPS (United States Postal Service) presently circulating online, published Help Net Security dated November 6, 2012. The fake electronic mail asserts that one parcel, which the email...Read Full Article

Spam Campaign Distributing Malware Masquerades as DHL
*Spam Filter Service News for November 20, 2012

According to SophosLabs, one malware scam is spreading far-and-wide as it spams out e-mails pretending to be from DHL Express the global service for mail delivery. Captioned as "Processing complete successfully," the spam mails assert to be certain notification to...Read Full Article

Spam Email Imitating Twitter Dispersed Across the Internet
*Spam Filter Service News for November 18, 2012

Sophos warned about the presently circulating fraud email campaign on the internet purporting Twitter. In an attempt to include the latest format profile images, the e-mails invite the users towards updating their Twitter profile. Though in this case, the emails do not actually come from...Read Full Article

Phishing Spam Circulating to Grab Apple IDs from Apple Customers
*Spam Filter Service News for November 16, 2012

Websense the security company cautions Apple customers to remain vigilant of one fresh spam mail outbreak that is yet again targeting them to 'phish' them off their Apple usernames. The spam mail captioned "Apple ID Cancelled" tells that Apple has tentatively withdrawn the...Read Full Article

Fake ATT Notices are Actually Spam Phishing emails
*Spam Filter Service News for October 23, 2012

Spam emails posing as messages from ATT the telecommunications major while admonishing recipients that they must validate personal email accounts else lose access to them have been detected circulating online, informs Help Net Security in news dated...Read Full Article

Spam Email Promises iPad 2
*Spam Filter Service News for October 21, 2012

Spam emails posing as messages from Gmail are presently circulating online while asserting the recipient will get a prize of an iPad 2 from Apple; thus published softpedia.com dated September 19, 2012. Displaying a header "September 18th Notice," the spam emails quite possibly show...Read Full Article

Spam eMail Supposedly from Friends Family
*Spam Filter Service News for October 19, 2012

Recently social networking users have been getting messages that seemingly arrived from friends on the popular social site Facebook, however, the spam emails really displayed an unknown id inside their reply spaces; thus published nbcnews...Read Full Article

Google Subscribers Receive Fraudulent Emails
*Spam Filter Service News for October 17, 2012

According to security experts, spam mails posing as messages from The Google Accounts Team have been observed that alert of one "suspicious sign-in" as they hit the inboxes of Google subscribers, thus published Help Net Security dated...Read Full Article

Fresh Spam Campaign Circulating against PayPal Subscribers
*Spam Filter Service News for September 10, 2012

According to security researchers, a new spam phishing scam in the name of PayPal has been detected circulating online that's targeting innocent Internet-users. The spam mail regretfully states that the user's latest PayPal transaction couldn't be...Read Full Article

Spam Volumes Drop during Q2-2012, Reports Kaspersky
*Spam Filter Service News for September 8, 2012

Spam mails have declined in number during Q2-2012 i.e. between April and June 2012, claims Kaspersky the security company in its quarterly report of Q2-2012. The reason attributed, is the seasonal holiday e-mail spammers as also computer hackers have...Read Full Article

New Spam Campaign Involves AV Firms Email Ids
*Spam Filter Service News for September 6, 2012

According to researchers from Websense a security company, Internet criminals have started spoofing many renowned antivirus firms' e-mail ids to deceptively make unwitting Internauts take down one malevolent file after telling...Read Full Article

Spam Outbreak Masquerading as Facebook Notification
*Spam Filter Service News for September 5, 2012

Security researchers from Sophos the security company are cautioning Facebook members that they require being wary of a fresh spam campaign, which posing as being sent from the social networking website, is hitting their mailboxes. The e-mail...Read Full Article

Dropbox Investigating the Reason of Spamming It’s Users
*Spam Filtering Service News for August 6, 2012

Pcworld.com published a report on 18th July, 2012 quoting the company saying Dropbox will exam the complaints of some European netizens' complaints against receiving spam emails that are in some way connected to their accounts...Read Full Article

Spam Email involves Fake Wire Rejection
*Spam Filtering Service News for August 5, 2012

Security researchers from Sophos the security company are cautioning users about false spam notifications regarding an abandoned wire transfer, reportedly targeting mailboxes across the globe, attempting at duping recipients into opening a malicious...Read Full Article

Nuclear Facility in Iran Hit by Computer Worm which Plays AC/DC Music
*Spam Filtering Service News for August 4, 2012

A report on 25th July, 2012 stating that Iran's nuclear plants have been hit by a computer worm which apparently plays an AC/DC song besides causing general havoc. Notably, AC/DC is a well known Australian rock band...Read Full Article

Facebook Users Scammed with “Instant Winners” Prize as Bait
*Spam Filtering Service News for August 3, 2012

Scam spam emails are doing the rounds posing as "Facebook User Notice" telling recipients that they're winners of $50,000 referred to as the "Facebook Instant Winner" prize so they must follow a given web-link for validating their email...Read Full Article

Spam Volumes Increased During April-May 2012
*Spam Filtering Service News for July 16, 2012

'Eleven' the security solutions vendor declared its June 2012 Email Security Report, revealing a rise in spam levels during April-May 2012. Specifically, the report states that during May 2012 alone there was a 17.3% incidence of spam attacks. Simultaneously...Read Full Article

Malicious Attack Sites is Surging
*Spam Filtering Service News for July 15, 2012

The number of compromised sites detected every month by Google antimalware and antiphishing system has been dropping rather steadily from the height of more than 300,000 in early 2009 and is now down around 15,000. However the company's stastics also confirm that...Read Full Article

Sophos Spots Trojan-embedded E-mail Spam
*Spam Filtering Service News for July 14, 2012

Security researchers from Sophos the security company have detected an ongoing spam mail scam, which has a malevolent file as attachment so cyber-criminals may contaminate Internauts' computers. Cautioning computer operators, the security company...Read Full Article

A Young Botnet Suspect Arrested by Russian Authorities
*Spam Filtering Service News for July 13, 2012

Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs Department "K"(anti-cybercrime division) has detained a 22-year old Russian as they consider him a major suspect for running a Trojan-based botnet, as reported by softpedia on 25 June 2012. The botnet operator...Read Full Article

LinkedIn Substantiates its Members’ Passwords got Exposed
*Spam Filtering Service News for June 20, 2012

According to LinkedIn the business social-networking website, it's aware of a security breach against it that compromised the passwords of its users as those passwords were found exposed on an allegedly pilfered list. The company, however, didn't...Read Full Article

Sophos Warns of 'Facebook Timeline Remover' Spam
*Spam Filtering Service News for June 18, 2012

As per the security experts of the security firm Sophos, spam emails are used up by the spammers to spread the "Timeline removal" scheme around the internet. Various controversies are caused due to the introduction of Timeline on Facebook; many users...Read Full Article

USA Experiences Increased Spam during April, Reports Kaspersky
*Spam Filtering Service News for June 15, 2012

The just published April 2012 Spam Report by Kaspersky Labs the security company shows that the total volume of junk e-mails commonly called spam had increased significantly during April 2012. The increase, according to the report, is by 2.2% in contrast with...Read Full Article

Phishing E-mails Strike University of California
*Spam Filtering Service News for June 12, 2012

University of California also known as UC Davis lately was targeted on the Net when its faculty and students received a fake electronic mail in their Web-mail account captioned "Update Your UC Davis Webmail Account," reported theaggie.org dated...Read Full Article

LinkedIn Notifications Employed to Serve Malware
*Spam Filtering Service News for May 17, 2012

Cyber crooks are once again on their expedition of victimizing fake invitations and messages to the users of social websites Linkedin, as per internet security firm, Commtouch. Several variables including names, relationships, and the number...Read Full Article

Bank of America Target of Phishing E-mail
*Spam Filtering Service News for May 16, 2012

Accountholders with Bank of America are being urged for being vigilant nowadays of one fresh phishing e-mail, published softpedia.com dated April 23, 2012. Displaying a header, "Bank of America Warning: Error Statement," recipients of the fake...Read Full Article

Scareware Pushing Malicious E-mail Outbreaks Target Twitter
*Spam Filtering Service News for May 15, 2012

Two separate bulk e-mail scams are presently attacking users of Twitter so they're led onto compromised websites pushing scareware meaning fake anti-virus software, cautions GFI Software, the security company.The spam mails have brief messages with...Read Full Article

Yahoo! Accountholders Yet Again Targeted with Phishing Scam
*Spam Filtering Service News for May 14, 2012

An e-mail maybe reaching Yahoo users' inboxes, posing as a message from the Yahoo organization, reported softpeda.com dated April 17, 2012. Actually, the e-mail is purely a fake crafted for capturing unwitting users' login details. And while...Read Full Article

New Scam E-mail Targets Google Users
*Spam Filtering Service News for May 04, 2012

As per the security experts at security firm Sophos, a new scam campaign is spreading like wildfire across the Internet targeting Google users. The subject of the scam e-mail was account verification. It informed the user for updating their e-mail address...Read Full Article

Considerable Increase in Phishing, Malware E-mails
*Spam Filtering Service News for May 03, 2012

According to "Eleven" an e-mail security company, harmful e-mails, during Q1-2012 (January-March 2012), increased, with 83.7% of malware-laced e-mails and 169.6% of phishing e-mails detected.Also, with approximately 25% of spam mails...Read Full Article

Grandparent Scam yet again Spreading
*Spam Filtering Service News for May 02, 2012

A warning by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) calls upon citizens for remaining vigilant about the "Grandparent e-mail/telephone scam," which has re-merged after intermittently appearing ever-since 2008, while especially aiming...Read Full Article

Verizon Cautions about Fresh Phishing Campaign
*Spam Filtering Service News for May 01, 2012

Verizon alerted its clients to one fresh phishing e-mail campaign, which's rapidly proliferating online, while hitting their inboxes, published Wirelessandmobilenews.com in news dated April 3, 2012.Posing as a message from...Read Full Article

Chinese Hackers use Electronics for Spying against Anybody
*Spam Filtering Service News for April 20, 2012

Chief of USA's counter-terrorism operations, Richard Clarke, who as well admonished of a 'stunning' blow from Al Qaeda prior to 9/11, points out that any Chinese electronic appliance can help hackers from that country towards performing espionage...Read Full Article

USA Still Leader of Global Phishing and Malware
*Spam Filtering Service News for April 19, 2012

The Websense Threat Report for 2012 published lately reveals that USA is still the global leader in malware hosting as well as malware connections, part of one neat planned strategy that cyber-criminals actively adopt. The reason, according to the firm...Read Full Article

eBay Targeted by Cyber Crooks in Recent Malicious Campaign
*Spam Filtering Service News for April 18, 2012

Cybercriminals have captured the body of genuine eBay e-mail and are currently using it in a malicious campaign, thus targeting innocent internauts, reported softpedia on March 26, 2012.The subject-line of the e-mail was titled...Read Full Article

Web Scammers Exploit Adobe’s Flash and Google’s Chrome
*Spam Filtering Service News for April 17, 2012

According to investigators from Kaspersky the security company, developers of malicious software are abusing Flash Player of Adobe and Chrome browser of Google for planting their wares onto Internet users' computers...Read Full Article

Phishing Scam Masquerades as IRS Attacks Businessmen
*Spam Filtering Service News for April 05, 2012

Specialists from Sophos the security company have warned of fake e-mails posing as messages from IRS (Internal Revenue Service) that presently circulating online, are actually aiming at innocent business-owners. Displaying captions like "IRS...Read Full Article

50 percent Decline in Spam email Announces IBM
*Spam Filtering Service News for April 04, 2012

IBM's Security Group, X-Force, currently released its 2011 trend and risk report that surveyed 4,000 customers and observed a 50 percent decline of spam email in 2011 against 2010. According to the security researchers this decline can be...Read Full Article

New DHL Tracking Notification E-mails are Spam
*Spam Filtering Service News for April 03, 2012

Sophos is cautioning Internauts about one spoofed e-mail supposedly from DHL, which issuing a notification accompanied with a Tracking number and hitting inboxes during October 2011, is yet again disseminating a harmful Trojan...Read Full Article

GFI Software Uncovers Phony LinkedIn E-mails
*Spam Filtering Service News for April 02, 2012

GFI Software the security research company recently alerted Web-surfers to fake e-mails posing as communications from LinkedIn the business networking website that while circulating online were presently targeting the site's members...Read Full Article

Kaspersky Claims that Political Spam Campaigns More Apparent
*Spam Filter Service News 03/29/12

As per the latest monthly report of Kaspersky, as the year guarantees to be combined with political incidents of international significance, spammers are becoming more active with their spam campaigns. In March 2012, Russia is supposed to elect its president...Read Full Article

IRS Cautions about Fraudsters Actively Executing Malicious ‘IT’ E-mail Campaigns
*Spam Filter Service News 03/28/12

Officials from IRS (Internal Revenue Service) are cautioning the general public of Internet fraudsters who are increasingly employing methodologies for conning residents this time of tax-submission, published The Augusta Chronicle in news...Read Full Article

Phishing E-mail Hitting Residents of Sarasota County
*Spam Filter Service News 03/27/12

Florida-situated Sarasota County's Sheriff Office has issued an alert to residents that scam e-mails are posing as messages from Comcast XFINITY and that these may result in ID-theft, published heraldtribune.com dated February 22...Read Full Article

MX Labs Intercepts Fresh Twitter Notification Spam
*Spam Filter Service News 03/26/12

MX Labs, the security company reports one fresh spam mail scam posing as a Twitter notice that's presently circulating online as it targets unwitting Internet-users...Read Full Article

Shopping Scam E-mail Delivers Bot-like Trojan
*Spam Filter Service News 03/21/12

Director of PandaLabs, Luis Corrons studied one shopping scam electronic mail his wife received that provided elaborately about her so-called Internet-based buying of an overtly antique Brad jacket in extremely fine whole grain leather, so published InfoSecurity dated...Read Full Article

Facebook Scam E-mail Dupes End-users with Gold Membership Bait
*Spam Filter Service News 03/20/12

A recent email scam, making the rounds, tricks recipients that they believe they're winners of a "gold membership" Facebook is offering by granting them a cash prize of $2.5m (1.7m EUR), reports Softpedia.com...Read Full Article

Cybercriminals Selling Facebook, Twitter Logins via Factory Outlets
*Spam Filter Service News 03/19/12

Stealing identification details through malware like Zeus and SpyEye has become extremely easy, and leaves cybercriminals with excess information. According to InformationWeek's news published on February 9, 2012, two gangs of hackers are selling Facebook, Twitter, and...Read Full Article

High School Student Blamed for Uploading Virus onto Institution’s PC
*Spam Filter Service News 03/18/12

Police arrested a student, aged 16, from Bethlehem High School, the past week, following suspicion that he installed one PC-virus onto the school's computer. Timesunion.com reported this on...Read Full Article

Chinese Hackers Alleged Perpetrators of an Extensive Nortel Breach
*Spam Filter Service News 03/17/12

Hackers, who planted remotely-controlled spyware onto Nortel networks, managed to steal passwords that the enterprise's high officials and executives used, thereby becoming capable of gaining admission into the company's e-mails, reports, business plans along with...Read Full Article

Phishing Scam Targets Chase Bank Customers
*Spam Filter Service News 03/15/12

Chicago, US-based Chase Bank officials are urging the public towards being vigilant about phishing e-mails that pose as communications from the bank, published mountprospect.org during the 2nd-week of...Read Full Article

E-mail Supposedly Inviting to Conference, Serves Trojan
*Spam Filter Service News 02/17/12

Security Companies Zscaler and Seculert independently detected assaults that recently utilized "MSUpdater Trojan" a RAT (Remote Access Tool) featured malicious program through fake e-mails, apparently inviting recipients for attending some conference, while the messages...Read Full Article

Collaborated Effort towards Evading Spam
*Spam Filter Service News 02/15/12

The social networking sites including Facebook, Google Inc, and Microsoft Corp integrated with financial organizations including the Bank of America Corp, eBay Inc's PayPal, and Fidelity Investments towards creating a set of norms to be followed for the prevention of...Read Full Article

Drive-by Spam E-mails Suffices in Compromising Computers
*Spam Filter Service News 02/14/12

Researchers at a German security firm, eleven, observed the inflow of a new spam that automatically downloads malware on a system at the immediate instance of being opened via e-mail. This type of spam is so powerful that it does not even require the help of an...Read Full Article

Spammers Camouflage Trojan to appear like Google+ Hangout Plug-in
*Spam Filter Service News 02/12/12

Spammers, taking advantage of Google+, which attained some popularity, are distributing fraudulent electronic mails asking recipients to do a check out of Google+ Hangouts via taking down a file, which pretends to be a plug-in for Google Hangout, but actually...Read Full Article

As Bot-masters continue abundantly, the Kelihos Resurges
*Spam Filter Service News 02/10/12

Researchers from Kaspersky Lab the security company disclose that the technique with which they stopped the Kelihos/Hlux bonnet from operating is called 'sinkholing,' which features certain advantages for itself, however, they simultaneously realized one thing...Read Full Article

Spammers Targeting Major Events for Spam Circulation
*Spam Filter Service News 02/08/12

According to the January 26, 2012 findings by Symantec Corp. in a Symantec Intelligence Report, more than 10,000 exclusive domain names containing a redirect script written in PHP were found to contain a reference to the New Year in the file name. These redirect scripts...Read Full Article

Phony Traffic Ticket Notice to Seattle Drivers Opens Malware
*Spam Filter Service News 1/27/12

The e-mail that poses as sent from the U.S' Seattle DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) as also asserts that one traffic ticket has been provided for the recipient is another fraud. For, a web-link within the e-mail produces an Internet...Read Full Article

Ransomware Pretends to be Law Enforcement, Demands Monetary Penalties
*Spam Filter Service News 1/26/12

Panda Labs the security company said that its researchers had detected one more series of ransomware assaults, which pretended to be formal alerts that agencies of law enforcement issued, admonishing end-users that they required paying a fine if they...Read Full Article

Phishing E-mails Spoofing BBB Reappear
*Spam Filter Service News 1/25/12

Another e-mail scam has surfaced, yet again utilizing the name of BBB as well as having the tagline: 'Start With Trust,' as it inundates inboxes nationwide. The e-mails supposedly from BBB, Utah Office also display...Read Full Article

North Korea Possibly Invaded Seoul University E-mail Accounts
*Spam Filter Service News 1/24/12

According to officials at Seoul University, it's suspected that North Korea masterminded a hack attack during 2011 to target the university graduates' e-mail accounts in the South, published Yonhap News Agency dated...Read Full Article

Phishing Scams Rely on Google Docs
*Spam Filter Service News 1/23/12

SophosLabs has recently detected twin spam campaigns during the 3rd-weekend of January 2012 that exploits Google Docs as support for their phishing...Read Full Article

US Homeland Security Attacked by Chinese Cyber Crooks
*Spam Filter Service News 1/22/12

Cybercriminals from China have assigned a novel virtual weapon which targets the department of homeland security (DHS), the defense department, and various US agencies and business, security researchers said...Read Full Article

Spam Messages Connect with QR Codes
*Spam Filter Service News 1/20/12

The ThreatSeeker Network of Websense recently spotted one spam campaign, which relies on QR Codes described as a barcode's 2D variant. The company, which used a QR Reader to scrutinize the QR...Read Full Article

Spam Scheme Posing as Microsoft Lottery Circulating Online
*Spam Filter Service News 1/18/12

According to researchers from Avira the security company, one spam mail has been recently hitting Internet users, while asserting that it is from certain Microsoft Lottery, which in reality doesn't exist. Softpedia.com reported...Read Full Article

Chinese Hacking Claimed against American Chamber of Commerce
*Spam Filter Service News 1/16/12

Computer-hackers based in China spied on the systems belonging to American Chamber of Commerce, causing the association's employees to be flooded with spam mails, reported HUFF POST TECH...Read Full Article

Phishing E-mails Purporting to be Apple Communications Detected
*Spam Filter Service News 1/13/12

spam e-mails particularly crafted for hitting Apple clients and masquerading as Apple communications have been found to presently circulate online, published cnet.com...Read Full Article

Spam Reporting Center Anticipated as Canadian Government Embarks Upon Curbing Spam
*Spam Filter Service News 1/12/12

The federal government in Canada has decided to create one 'Spam Reporting Center' with which illegitimate and nuisance e-mail, text messages and phone-calls will be stubbed before they can inundate Canadian mailboxes, social-networking accounts..Read Full Article

Spam Campaign following Kim Jong-il’s Demise Serves Malware
*Spam Filter Service News 1/10/12

The telecommunications regulator of South Korea alerted that a malicious spam campaign, by capitalizing on Kim Jong-il's death who was the Workers Party of Korea's general secretary in North Korea, is striking users' mailboxes. Help Net Security...Read Full Article

Blaine Man gets Jail over Nigerian E-mail Spam
*Spam Filter Service News 1/08/12

A person from Blaine who earlier acknowledged that he netted millions via launching a 'Nigerian e-mail scam' he crafted is now facing jail for 5-yrs. Seattlepi published this dated...Read Full Article

Malicious Spam Depicts Demise of Venezuela President
*Spam Filter Service News 1/05/12

According to security experts at Sophos, with the intention of victimizing netizens from Latin America, the fake death news of the Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez was taking rounds..Read Full Article

Cloudmark Reveals Spammers Toll on Package Delivery Firms
*Spam Filter Service News 12/24/11

E-mail Security Firm, Cloudmark reveals a hike in the inflow of spam e-mail masquerading renowned package delivery firms with the beginning of the holiday season targeting innocent...Read Full Article

Consumers Cautioned of Scam E-mail Abusing Name of USPS
*Spam Filter Service News 12/23/11

Security researchers have lately alerted that e-mail scammers are misusing the name of USPS (United States Postal Service) for gaining admission into people's sensitive personal data...Read Full Article

Phishing E-mail Targets Xbox Live Players
*Spam Filter Service News 12/22/11

A phishing e-mail is targeting users of Xbox Live that cyber-criminals sent them in a sophisticated scam, thus published roduct-reviews.net in news dated November...Read Full Article

Bogus Emails Appear to be Coming from Facebook
*Spam Filter Service News 12/21/11

These days, one can easily find in one's inbox the daunting posts which appear to be coming from social networking website Facebook, according to a Softpedia report dated November...Read Full Article

Nigerian E-mail Scammers Pretend to be FBI within Fresh E-mail Fraud
*Spam Filter Service News 12/20/11

Scam e-mails are landing inside people's inboxes supposedly from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Anti-Terrorist and Monetary Crimes Division, warning recipients to make a deposit...Read Full Article

Starbucks Gift Card Spam Targets Twitter and E-mail Users
*Spam Filter Service News 12/19/11

With an intention to target users of Facebook, Twitter, and e-mail users, a starbucks-themed scan has been revealed, as reported by HELP NET SECURITY on November 21...Read Full Article

PayPal Phishing E-mail Centers on Skype TopUp Spending
*Spam Filter Service News 12/16/11

Internet users are being cautioned of a spam mail, which tells the recipient that an amount of 69.99 GBP has been credited to his PayPal account and that the sum transferred to Skype...Read Full Article

Jobs and Gaddafi Remain Hot Topics for Spammers
*Spam Filter Service News 12/15/11

The latest spam report by Kaspersky Labs reveals that spammers continue to use several hot news such as founder of Apple, Steve Jobs, also the company's chairman who died recentl...Read Full Article

Spam Increases 2% during 3rd Quarter of 2011
*Spam Filter Service News 11/24/11

According to Kaspersky Lab, which recently published its third quarter report for 2011, the total number of fake electronic mails that Internet-users found in their mailboxes during the...Read Full Article

Elderly Man Victimized with Spam Phishing E-mail Fraud
*Spam Filter Service News 11/23/11

A resident aged 73, of Grosse Pointe city in Michigan, USA reported getting a spam e-mail that even victimized him, published GrossPointePatch during the end-week of October...Read Full Article

Spam Exploiting Gadhafi’s Demise Continues
*Spam Filter Service News 11/22/11

Symantec researchers stumbled on fresh versions of the already circulating spam mails regarding Muammar Gadhafi the Libyan leader's death, which are actually nothing, but 419 scams...Read Full Article

Spammers bypass URL-Condensing Websites’ Security Systems
*Spam Filter Service News 11/21/11

Symantec, within its "Symantec Intelligence Report for October 2011" released recently states that spammers have discovered one technique for bypassing security systems installed...Read Full Article

Phishing Scam Targeting “College of the Holy Cross” Affects Innumerable People
*Spam Filter Service News 11/02/11

"College of the Holy Cross" lately informed the Office of Attorney General for New Hampshire (USA) that a phishing attack victimized 7 employees of the institution, with the scam originating...Read Full Article

Cops Caution about Scam IRS emails
*Spam Filter Service News 11/01/11

Police are cautioning residents of Clifton (New Jersey, USA) for being wary about scam emails, presently circulating online, thus published northjersey.com dated October 21, 2011....Read Full Article

South Dakota Company Sues California Firm for Unsolicited emails
*Spam Filter Service News 10/31/11

Gage E-Services a business company based in Sioux Falls (South Dakota) and Knowledge Matrix Inc., a company in California are fighting legal battles regarding spam mails, published...Read Full Article

Spammers Utilized Spam, Economic Crisis and Threat for Murder during September: Kaspersky
*Spam Filter Service News 10/28/11

According to one recently-released September 2011 spam report by Kaspersky Lab, spammers, during the month, used many fresh and advanced tactics of social-engineering for deceiving...Read Full Article

Construction of Chinese Bots Very Faulty, State Researchers
*Spam Filter Service News 10/27/11

The construction of Chinese botnets is very poor and they're full of faults, state security researchers. SCMagazine.com.au published this on October 6, 2011....Read Full Article

Password-Stealing Polymorphic Malware on the Rise
*Spam Filter Service News 10/26/11

Security researchers caution that spam outbreaks consisting of "polymorphic malware" programmed for spreading banker Trojans that steal passwords are on the rise since recent months...Read Full Article

PC-Virus Infects Systems inside American Drone Machines
*Spam Filter Service News 10/25/11

The computer systems fitted inside the robotic airplane cockpits belonging to the Reaper and Predator drones of USA have been contaminated with a virus that's intercepting the keystrokes of the pilots...Read Full Article

Halloween-Themed Black hat SEO have Begun
*Spam Filter Service News 10/24/11

Though Halloween still has a few weeks to go, online crooks are fully charged with new scams aimed at trapping users and infecting hacking of computers....Read Full Article

Cybercriminals Designing Superbotnet: Commtouch Researcher
*Spam Filter Service News 10/12/11

By sending out billions of malicious emails for a mysterious reason, a cybercriminal association is creating a superbotnet, according to Commtouch researcher Avi...Read Full Article

US Fed Agencies Insist Cyber Security Code of Conduct against Botnet
*Spam Filter Service News 10/11/11

Two US federal agencies -- The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), have proposed that a voluntary...Read Full Article

Symantec Identifies Fresh Spam Run Surrounding iPhone 5
*Spam Filter Service News 10/10/11

According to Symantec the security company, one fresh spam run that attempts at cashing in on the soon to be launched iPhone 5 is presently circulating online....Read Full Article

Alleged Spam Mailer Fined $700,000
*Spam Filter Service News 10/09/11

Brendan Battles and IMG (Image Marketing Group), his company that allegedly spammed mails may have to pay $700,000 as fine on charges they apparently traded 50,000 email ids...Read Full Article

Fresh Spam Distributing Countries Getting Marked
*Spam Filter Service News 10/08/11

According to one fresh research that Kaspersky the security company carried out recently, the geographical regions from where spam originated during 2010 has since changed...Read Full Article

Brothers Legally Punished for Executing Spam Campaign
*Spam Filter Service News 10/07/11

Amir Shah, 30 and brother Osmaan Shah, 27 who's an ex-student of UM (University of Missouri) of Missouri, USA were put under a period of probation in a sentence that followed...Read Full Article

Sudden Surge in Malicious email Attachments Raise Brows
*Spam Filter Service News 10/06/11

The ramification of uncanny demeanor of malicious email attachments since August 2011 is beyond imagination, according to Internet security firm, Commtouch, reports networkworld...Read Full Article

email Scamming Entice Internet-Users via Fresh Tricks
*Spam Filter Service News 10/05/11

The Consumer Affairs Unit of TDCI is advising clients for remaining vigilant about emails, which summon recipients to answer a survey in exchange of an online gift card, reported...Read Full Article

Court Hears Hacking Cases against Two Teens
*Spam Filter Service News 09/14/11

Police officials from Britain are heading for USA for collecting clues pertaining to a PC-hacking case, which may help in prosecuting a pair of British teenagers thought...Read Full Article

E-mail about Money Transfer via Western Union Masks Trojan Assault
*Spam Filter Service News 09/13/11

According to Sophos the security company, its researchers have caught malicious software within an e-mail pertaining to certain money transfer through Western Union...Read Full Article

Fake Facebook Spam Going Around
*Spam Filter Service News 09/12/11

Facebook hackers have been trying to arouse user's curiosity by leveraging their excitement about getting a notification by a scam mail, but this time it alerts about a new...Read Full Article

Spam Mail Purporting to be from FTC Delivers Trojan
*Spam Filter Service News 09/11/11

A vicious electronic mail is doing the rounds, posing as a message from the U.S. FTC, while infecting PCs with malware. Reports have been coming to the agency complaining about...Read Full Article

NY State Police Warns the Public About One Fresh Phishing email
*Spam Filter Service News 09/07/11

The Computer Crime Division of the New York State Police (NYSP) has raised an alert regarding one fresh spurious email, which poses as a message from the DMV (Department of...Read Full Article

Victim of Travel Scam email
*Spam Filter Service News 09/06/11

Susan McNeese Lynch, a Louisville, Kentucky resident and proprietor of SML Communications is the latest victim of a scam email as reported by wlky on August...Read Full Article

Fasthosts Admonishes Small-Sized Enterprises against Dispatching Spam
*Spam Filter Service News 09/05/11

Fasthosts the Internet hosting company has asked small enterprises to resist spamming their clients through bulk emails. Actually, numerous people had complained it...Read Full Article

Insignificant Spam Rates in August 2011: Symantec
*Spam Filter Service News 09/04/11

In the Symantec Intelligence Report declared for August 2011, the global ratio of spam is shown to have declined by 75.9% (one in 1.32 emails was marked as spam). There was...Read Full Article

CTIA Cautions about Phishing E-Mails
*Spam Filter Service News 09/01/11

CTIA has issued an alert to Internet-users that one fresh e-mail scam is presently circulating online, while it poses as a communication from the association. Wirelessweek.com...Read Full Article

Phishing Scam Strikes UH Students
*Spam Filter Service News 08/31/11

Security researchers caution University of Hawaii students in Hawaii, USA that phishing e-mails are presently reaching their inboxes posing as messages from the Web-mail...Read Full Article

Incredible Hike for E-Mail Spam, Says M86 Security
*Spam Filter Service News 08/30/11

M86 Security reports that malicious junk e-mails have increased significantly, largely surpassing anything the company observed during 2009-10. ITPro published this on...Read Full Article

Spam Mails Purportedly from UPS Circulating Online
*Spam Filter Service News 08/29/11

Researchers from security company Commtouch are cautioning that one fresh malicious e-mail campaign is circulating online while it poses as being sent from UPS the package...Read Full Article

GFI Highlights July E-Threats as Malware-Laced Autowhaler and Codec-Disguised Scareware
*Spam Filter Service News 08/24/11

GFI Software has just declared the Top Ten e-threats it identified during July 2011. Among those the company highlighted, an "autowhaler" app carrying malicious...Read Full Article

Spear Phishing Spam Strikes America’s Military and Senior Officials
*Spam Filter Service News 08/23/11

A personalized email phishing spam called spear-phishing is presently circulating online as it targets US military personnel and experienced...Read Full Article

Cyber-Criminals Currently Phishing for Frequent Flier Points
*Spam Filter Service News 08/22/11

Kaspersky Lab the IT security company headquartered in Russia has just released its July 2011 malware report according to which, cyber-criminals...Read Full Article

Bogus E-Mails Purport to be Microsoft Security Patch
*Spam Filter Service News 08/21/11

Security researchers recently spotted a spam mail circulating online, which apparently notifies of a security update for Microsoft's...Read Full Article

Anti-virus Software Disabled by Fake Codec Trojan
*Spam Filter Service News 08/18/11

ESET announced the spread of dangerous new variant of the Win32/Delf.QCZ Trojan through Facebook, as reported by virus removal...Read Full Article

Scareware Purveyors Resort to Socially-engineered Spam Mails
*Spam Filter Service News 08/17/11

According to the ThreatSeeker Network of Websense, it has been keeping watch as well as tracing one new spam campaign that's targeting...Read Full Article

Californian Sentenced to Lengthy Prison over Phishing
*Spam Filter Service News 08/16/11

Tien Truong Nguyen, a 34-yr old man from California has been legally ordered towards serving prison for over 12 years...Read Full Article

Spam eMails Masquerading as Firefox Update Deliver Trojan
*Spam Filter Service News 08/15/11

Security investigators at Security Company Sophos caution that bogus e-mails posing as notifications for Firefox update...Read Full Article

Symantec Reports Rise in Worldwide Spam against Total Electronic Mail
*Spam Filter Service News 08/11/11

According to its July 2011 Intelligence Report that just got released, Symantec highlights that the worldwide percentage...Read Full Article

E-mail Spammers Exploiting Online Bankers’ ‘Financial Fear’
*Spam Filter Service News 08/10/11

According to researchers from Sophos, cyber-criminals in a new e-mail scam are exploiting consumers' 'financial fear'...Read Full Article

Spam Campaign Piggybacks on RSA Breach: AppRiver
*Spam Filter Service News 08/09/11

According to researchers from AppRiver the security company, they have spotted one fresh spam campaign which's trying to...Read Full Article

M86 Reveals Hike in Email-Based Attacks
*Spam Filter Service News 08/08/11

While analyzing trends of cyber threats during the initial half of 2011, security experts from M86 Security Labs claimed...Read Full Article

Email Recipients Alerted of Scam Purportedly from FBI
*Spam Filter Service News 08/04/11

According to security researchers, an email scam has been recently spotted which poses as communication from the Federal...Read Full Article

Bank Customers in Spain Subjected to Fresh email Assault
*Spam Filter Service News 08/03/11

Security firm Trend Micro warns that one fresh email scam laced with malware is presently attacking people with accounts...Read Full Article

India Volatile for Spam Emission in June 2011: Kaspersky Lab
*Spam Filter Service News 08/02/11

According to a recent report on spam emission presented by the Kaspersky Lab, India still holds the topmost position of producing...Read Full Article

Public Cautioned of Rugby World Cup Scam
*Spam Filter Service News 08/01/11

The Anti-Spam Compliance Unit (ASCU) of the Department of Internal Affairs has issued an alert for the public that they should...Read Full Article

MX Lab Detects Spam Mail Supposedly Issuing Carrefour E-Card
*Spam Filter Service News 07/28/11

According to researchers at MX Lab the email security company situated in Belgium, one fresh spam campaign is doing the rounds...Read Full Article

Marco Island Female Receives Scam email
*Spam Filter Service News 07/27/11

A Marco Island, Florida woman Lisa Gandy lately got an email that posed as a communication from IRS the American government...Read Full Article

Phishers Attack Users of iDisk from Apple
*Spam Filter Service News 07/26/11

Researchers from Symantec the security company warn users that phishers are attacking iDisk the Internet file-hosting...Read Full Article

RCIPS Warns of Scam Coca-Cola email
*Spam Filter Service News 07/25/11

According to a warning by RCIPS (Royal Cayman Islands Police Service), the permanent contingent of police catering to...Read Full Article

Spam Mails Pose as Unpaid Credit Card Notifications
*Spam Filter Service News 07/13/11

Investigators at M86 Security the security firm are cautioning that one fresh junk email campaign, which's distributing messages...Read Full Article

Spammers Distributing Fake Google Invite Messages: Sophos
*Spam Filter Service News 07/12/11

Investigators from Sophos the security company are warning that spammers are dispatching malicious emails posing as...Read Full Article

Scam email Demands Money for Having Recipient’s Life Spared
*Spam Filter Service News 07/11/11

Police are advising local inhabitants for remaining watchful ever-since a man from Newmarket (England) got a threatening email...Read Full Article

Phishers Pretending as Facebook Security Team in a Recent Fake email Scam
*Spam Filter Service News 07/10/11

Security experts at the Internet Security firm Sophos have recently acknowledged a new phishing email, wherein attackers apparently...Read Full Article

Barracuda Labs Detects Spam Runs Aimed at SMBs
*Spam Filter Service News 07/06/11

According to investigators at Barracuda Labs a security company, they've identified 2 fresh spam outbreaks, which while targeting...Read Full Article

Phishing emails Targeting Microsoft Outlook Users
*Spam Filter Service News 07/05/11

Cyber security experts at the security firm, Sophos, have warned Microsoft Outlook users to be careful about phishing emails...Read Full Article

PayPal, Phishers’ Most Targeted Item During May 2011: Kaspersky
*Spam Filter Service News 07/04/11

Kaspersky Labs, which recently issued its May 2011 spam activity report, states that PayPal the online payment system continued...Read Full Article

Sophos Spots Spam Outbreak Attacking Users of Twitter
*Spam Filter Service News 07/03/11

Investigators from Sophos caution of one fresh spam run which's presently exploiting Twitter as also its widespread...Read Full Article

HMRC Warns of Tax Rebate email Scams
*Spam Filter Service News 06/27/11

As the deadline for renewing tax credits comes near, UK Government's Tax Department, HMRC (Her Majesty's Revenue...Read Full Article

Bank Negara Cautions of Phishing email
*Spam Filter Service News 06/26/11

Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) has cautioned of an email scam that is presently circulating on the Web, as reported by...Read Full Article

Emails Supposedly from McDonalds Drop Trojan
*Spam Filter Service News 06/25/11

Investigators at BitDefender the security company state that they've detected scam emails that are arriving in mailboxes purportedly...Read Full Article

Spam Rates Declined, but Phishing on a Surge: Symantec
*Spam Filter Service News 06/24/11

As per Symantec's latest (June 2011) "State of Spam & Phishing Report", due to the successful botnet shutdowns, the volume...Read Full Article

Ryanair Cautions Regarding Fake Recruitment Email
*Spam Filter Service News 06/23/11

Ryanair has recently warned job seekers regarding an email scam pretending to have come from it, as reported by The Journal ...Read Full Article

Spear Phishing Technique Likely Used to Attack IMF
*Spam Filter Service News 06/22/11

According to security researchers, a cyber-assault against the International Monetary Fund a worldwide financial organization may've been launched with the so-called spear phishing technique, states Eweek.com dated June 13, 2011...Read Full Article

FBI Cautions about Fake Homeland Security EMail
*Spam Filter Service News 06/21/11

Andrew G. Arena Special Agent-in-Charge has said that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has got complaints about a scam email that appearing as formal communication from the bureau is being delivered into the mailboxes of Michigan residents and...Read Full Article

Malware Authors Benefit From Updates Not Being Installed
*Spam Filter Service News 06/20/11

G Data, which recently analyzed malicious software for May 2011, has found that cyber-criminals are actively following the trend of exploiting un-patched security flaws that affect Web-browsers, implying that they aren't...Read Full Article

Spam eMail's Carrying PDF Attachments on an Increase
*Spam Filter Service News 06/07/11

IBM lately published outcomes from its yearly report titled "X-Force 2010 Trend and Risk Report," emphasizing that both private and public organizations internationally encountered...Read Full Article

Spammers Kept Same Tactics during 1st Quarter of 2011
*Spam Filter Service News 05/31/11

Kaspersky Labs' first quarterly report for 2011, cybercriminals did not much make use of new techniques for spam circulation and used the same conventional tactics during the first quarter...Read Full Article

Spammers Come Together Once Again Following Botnet Takedowns
*Spam Filter Service News 04/06/11

According to Kaspersky Lab the security company, following several botnets' shutdown between July and December 2010, email spammers have once again retrieved operations...Read Full Article

Email Spam Levels Reach a Peak of 81.3% During February 2011
*Spam Filter Service News 03/11/11

Symantec Corporation, on March 1, 2011, declared its MessageLabs Intelligence Report for February 2011, according to which, email spam increased to a maximum of...Read Full Article

US Spam Volumes Start Reviving During January 2011
*Spam Filter Service News 03/02/11

The total email spam volumes in United States started rising during January 2011, placing the country once again among the twenty most widespread sources of spam ever-since...Read Full Article

Email Spam Poses Threats to Egyptian Consumers
*Spam Filter Service News 02/25/11

An email masqueraded to be sent by a consultant with the former Egyptian president, Muhammad Hosni Mubarak, seeking help from people for moving money and...Read Full Article

Waledac Botnet Owners Gather 500,000 Credentials
*Spam Filter Service News 02/10/11

Security researchers at Last Line the security company, who studied Botnet Waledac that emerged during 2010-beginning found that till now it has been capable of...Read Full Article

Asprox Botnet Distributing Oficla-bearing Spam Mails
*Spam Filter Service News 1/14/11

Security investigators from M86 Security warn that a spam campaign pretending to notify failed shipment of recipients' parcels is flowing out of the...Read Full Article

A Four-Day Plunge to Stuxnet’s Knowhow
*Spam Filter Service News 1/6/11

To gain information about the Stuxnet computer worm from an unrecognized Belarusian security company is indeed a shameful event for the vulnerability team at Microsoft, as... Read Full Article

Chinese Website Promises Fresh Movies, But Actually Installs Malware
*Spam Filter Service News 12/17/10

According to Webroot a security company, a very recent movie website situated in China offers visitors much more compared to some very recent pirated movies as also it loads one Web-server that's... Read Full Article

Fake UPS Spam E-mails Spread Malware
*Spam Filter Service News 12/1/10

Security researchers at BKIS have warned against a new series of spam emails impersonating United States Postal or UPS service. These spam e-mails target innocent.. Read Full Article

Scareware Represents 25% of the Entire Malicious Software
*Spam Filter Service News 11/8/10

A prominent company for Internet security cautions that bogus anti-spyware and anti-virus software, together called scareware, acts as a force that drives the market for cyber-criminals... Read Full Article

Botnets appear as a Huge Threat in 2011
*Spam Filter Service News 10/25/10

The Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC) 2011 Emerging Cyber Threats Report was released in recent times in which it predicated that one of the most important threats... Read Full Article

Skype-Based Phishing Email Spreading over Internet
*Spam Filter Service News 10/6/10

Security experts at "Websense" advises about a latest phishing email which is targeting Skype users and is presently making rounds... Read Full Article

New botnet exploiting social networking website "Twitter"
*Spam Filter Service News 9/27/10

A new botnet which is exploiting social networking website "Twitter" as its command and control channel, has been detected by security experts... Read Full Article

Hackers Exploiting Google Code Repository
*Spam Filter Service News 9/14/10

A new report by Web security firm, Zscaler, has found that malicious hackers are exploiting the Google Code repository to harbor backdoors, Trojans horses and password stealing key logging programs that target multi player... Read Full Article

New Version of Zeus Trojan Targets Internet Banking
*Spam Filter Service News 9/2/10

Researchers at a website security company Dasient report that a fresh attack is being launched that involves the data-stealing Trojan, Zeus. This Trojan contaminates Windows computers... Read Full Article

Phishers Targeting Bank of America Customers
*Spam Filter Service News 8/27/10

Security researchers at ScanSafe report that phishers are targeting the customers of BofA (Bank of America) through a fresh e-mail fraud. The fake electronic mail, posing as a message... Read Full Article

Surge in Attacks Abusing Zero-Day Vulnerability in Windows
*Spam Filter Service News 8/10/10

Software giant Microsoft said that its security team has discovered over 10,000 different PCs that have suffered the attack exploiting the Windows Help and Support Center vulnerability, according to the news... Read Full Article

Cyber-Criminals Employing Automatic Programs For Testing Their Web Standing
*Spam Filter Service News 8/06/10

Bot-masters and virus authors are using fresh subscription services in increasing number of instances to examine if and when McAfee SiteAdvisor and Google Safe Browsing the Web reputation software applications separate... Read Full Article

Internet Users Targeted by New Spam Email Campaign - Sunbelt
*Spam Filter Service News 7/30/10

'Sunbelt' Security experts alerts the users against a new spam email campaign, which is spreading on the Internet and targets naïve users. It has been highlighted by the security firm that spam emails imitating to be registration... Read Full Article

NY District Attorney - Beware of Increasing Email Scams
*Spam Filter Service News 7/23/10

The Cybercrime and Identity Theft Bureau of the New York County District Attorney's Office, has been informed about an increase in email scams including illegally obtained email accounts from web-based email providers... Read Full Article

Next generation Phishing Kit Discovered
*Spam Filter Service News 7/16/10

Researchers at security firm "Imperva" have recently detected a next-generation phishing kit. As per Imperva, the "freeware" phishing kit has been posted on the hacker forum and is used to build up fake websites like a PayPal or... Read Full Article