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Phishers jump on the iPhone bandwagon
News As Apple's newest gadget starts selling in US stores, spammers are exploiting the surrounding product craze by sending emails that try to dupe recipients into thinking they have won an iPhone of their own. [03 Jul 2007]
Stock spam slumps
News Much of the remaining image-based spam is being delivered as a link rather than attachment and many spammers have retreated to traditional text-based messages, the company said. Separate research by security vendors McAfee and Marshal Software... [22 Jun 2007]
Microsoft to clean up web spam
News Spammers soil the web with countless links to their spam fronts in order to gain a higher ranking in search engines. Yi-Min Wang, principal researcher at Microsoft, said in an interview: "By cleaning up web search, hopefully we can discourage... [14 Jul 2006]
MIT hosts spam pow-wow
News It is also one year since the implementation of Can-Spam, the federal law that sets email marketing standards and makes it less complicated for law enforcement to go after John Doe spammers. The idea is that spammers and legitimate marketers alike... [29 Mar 2006]
Exposed: Dodgy domains spam message boards
News Spammers appear to have found a new target of choice for 2006 - bombarding internet message boards with unprecedented ferocity. Many of the actual sites link through to more than one established poker site. [11 Jan 2006]
Spammers exploit Iran nuclear crisis
News As Iran is threatening to resume uranium-converting operations at a nuclear facility in Isfahan, spammers are taking advantage of the situation with another bogus junk email campaign. The emails, which link to Trojan spreading websites, are... [10 Aug 2005]
MyDoom: The virus that changed the world
News The creation of these 'bot-net' networks represented a coming together of virus writers, spammers and organised crime. And the link has certainly proven effective. It's been exactly one year since the launch of the MyDoom virus that dominated many... [26 Jan 2005]
ISP nets $1bn in spam case
News An internet service provider in Iowa has been awarded more than $1bn in what is believed to be the largest lawsuit judgment ever against spammers. Robert Kramer, who owns CIS Internet Services, sued 300 spammers after his servers received up to 10... [20 Dec 2004]
Lycos email scam hides nasty Trojan
News Networks of these compromised machines - or botnets - are rented out to spammers by the gangs who control them. Yesterday silicon.com questioned whether the hastily scrapped service may actually have further empowered the spammers and today's news... [08 Dec 2004]
EU and US team up on spam fight
News As a global community we can send a message to the spammers, telling them 'you can no longer use a national border as a shield to protect yourself from law enforcement. However, Majoras refused to accept the level of US culpability, knocking-back... [11 Oct 2004]
Police warning over new key-logging 'Trojan' spam emails
News There is a second key-logger and a program that allows the machine to act as a mail proxy that could be used by spammers. The email also contains a link to a website to view the order in more detail but if people click on the link, it takes them to... [13 Aug 2004]
Latest Bagle worm 'certainly successful'
News With that information, the vandals can use the compromised computers to spread spam, or sell the information to spammers, Friedrichs said. Such "bot" software can be used by spammers and more dangerous online denizens to disrupt access to websites... [16 Jul 2004]
Porno spammers by-pass Outlook filters
News Historically, spammers have been able to get the emails through by incorporating a link to the file. Spammers who send pornographic pictures in the hope of enticing the recipient to signing up to an adult website have discovered a way to bypass... [22 Jun 2004]
Spammers not worried about laws says report
News Only three per cent of bulk commercial email includes a valid US postal mail address and a valid link to opt out of future messages, according to data released on Tuesday by MX Logic, a maker of mail-filtering software. [11 Feb 2004]
Virginia bags notorious spammer
News According to antispam organisation Spamhaus, "Stubberfield" is well-known for pornographic and "get rich quick" offers online and was ranked number 8 on the group's top 10 spammers list for November. Anyone with any sense would, of course, realise... [12 Dec 2003]
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