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Mega-D botnet is back spamming in large volumes

(09/12/2008)

McColo, the major spam hosting provider, was shutdown by its ISP on November 11 following a journalist’s enquiries about illicit spam activities. Subsequently the volume of spam around the world fell by as much as 70 percent as command and control servers for three major spam botnets were hosted by McColo. The Mega-D botnet, famous for sending billions of spam emails promoting sexual performance remedies, along with the Srizbi and Rustock botn... [more]

Marshal merges with 8e6 Technologies into Marshal8e6

(17/11/2008)

Marshal, a UK-based email and Web content security software and technology cmpany, and 8e6 Technologies, a US-based Web filtering appliances and technology company, announced their agreement today to merge and form a new company, Marshal8e6. The combination creates an independent software company capable of securing all forms of Internet-based communication streams - including internal corporate emails, Internet-based email services, websites... [more]

Internet criminals use SEO to dupe unsuspecting visitors into infecting themselves with malware and fake anti-virus products

(31/10/2008)

Internet criminals are now using tools such as Google Trends to identify the most popular and current Internet search terms. The same criminals then use new blogs on free hosting sites, such as Windows Live Spaces and AOL Journals, featuring the same search terms. When an Internet user then makes a search using those popular terms they get multiple links to these hosted blog sites in their search results. If the user then clicks on the link, ... [more]

Botnet wars: Celebrity Spam Gang competes with Storm Gang

(29/11/2007)

A copycat spam gang has developed a botnet that is currently responsible for more than 20 per cent of all spam in circulation, according to Marshal’s threat research TRACE Team. The botnet now has the ability to distribute similar amounts of spam as the notorious Storm botnet. Marshal has touted the spammers responsible for this botnet the “Celebrity Spam Gang”, owing to their fondness for using celebrity names in their spam. The Celebrity Gan... [more]

Storm spam campaign targets NFL fans

(10/09/2007)

A new outbreak of Storm malicious spam emails targeting NFL fans has been launched against inboxes worldwide. According to the Marshal TRACE Team, the latest Storm spam campaign has been timed to coincide with the start of the NFL season. The message lures recipients to a fake NFL website with the enticement of a 'Free NFL Game Tracker' - a utility that supposedly updates fans on game results but is actually the Storm trojan. Users are lured ... [more]

Spam disguised as PDF attachment

(27/06/2007)

A new form of spam disguised as an Adobe Picture Document Format (PDF) attachment has been reported. The spam takes on the appearance of a legitimate business email containing an attached PDF file. The PDF features the file name 'username_report.pdf' - the username in the file name is the same as the email recipient's name (taken from their email address). The personalisation of the attachment file name makes it appear more legitimate. The... [more]

 

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