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Attachment Spam - The Latest Trend: Spammers Using Common File Formats as Attachments for Pump and-Dump Scams
White Paper This white paper explains what makes spam such an unbearable problem and how spamming tactics are evolving daily to beat anti-spam software. In the space of two months, spammers have switched from image spam to using... [01 Jul 2009]
Detecting Deception in the Context of Web 2.0
White Paper This paper uses the terminology of semantic attacks and cognitive channel attacks to broaden the scope of Cybenko et al.s earlier work on detecting pump-and-dump schemes... [29 Jun 2009]
Stock Spam: A Classic Scam
White Paper The "pump 'n' dump" stock scam has been around since the inception of stock sales. Today, however, after a series of fumbles by amateurs, serious Internet criminals are taking this scam to new levels,... [18 Mar 2009]
Filtering's ding-dong fight with malicious spam
Comment The pump-and-dump stock spam, for example, is initiated by criminals who buy up stock of publicly traded companies with stolen credit card details. Just 24 hours later, they... [10 Dec 2007]
Pump-and-dump MP3 email spam warning
News An outbreak of pump-and-dump email spam this week is using bandwidth-sapping MP3 voice file attachments to promote certain stocks. The MP3 attachments, which range from around 85KB to... [19 Oct 2007]
Storm botnet 'services' for hire?
News Oddly enough, Storm isn't doing much, so far, except gathering strength," he wrote, adding that: "Aside from continuing to infect other Windows machines and attacking particular sites that are attacking it Storm has only... [17 Oct 2007]
Stock spam slumps
News Instances of 'pump 'n' dump' financial fraud spam has plummeted from 50 per cent of all spam in February to just five per cent today. Pump 'n' dump' is the name given to... [22 Jun 2007]
Worst week for viruses in a year?
News Ken Dunham, director of VeriSign's Rapid Response Team, said in a statement: "It is highly likely that this latest attack will result in many more downloads, pump-and-dump attacks,... [16 Apr 2007]
Three charged over online stock scam
News US federal authorities have charged three men with hacking into online brokerage accounts and using the proceeds to manipulate the stock of Google, Sun Microsystems and 12 other companies. Indian... [14 Mar 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 09.03.07
Round-Up Hundreds of 419 scams merrily dance past Microsoft's lame-duck filtering each and every day, accompanied by Korean spam, offers of miracle 'enhancements' (ahem),... [09 Mar 2007]
Stock spam leads to trade freeze on 35 firms
News Earlier in the week it won an emergency court order freezing assets in a Latvian-based bank's trading account that allegedly was used in 'pump-and-dump' manipulation of shares in 15... [09 Mar 2007]
Spammers cashing in on pump-and-dump stock scams
News So-called "pump-and-dump" scams, where spammers send out false stock information to encourage people to buy shares, were found to both increase the traded volume and... [03 Jul 2006]
Stock scam spam: Going up
News The volume of "pump-and-dump" stock scam email has increased at an average rate of 10 per cent per month, the company said. Gregg Mastoras, senior security analyst at Sophos, said in a... [05 Aug 2005]
Fake stock market tip scam becomes phone spam
News The scam dubbed by the US as "pump and dump" involves an unknown caller leaving a message on the recipient's answering machine dictating to "his or her 'friend' about an excellent... [27 Sep 2004]
Spam victims long for the 'bad old days'
News Pump and dump' share tipping - spamming out 'buy' recommendations to grow share prices with a view to a quick sale - have also become commonplace according to Clearswift - marking a move... [14 Jul 2004]
