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Russian police have announced they have opened an investigation of a man they are calling a spam king.  33 year old Igor Gusev is accused of being responsible for up to 20% of all Viagra and prescription drug spam. Authorities …

The Conficker worm shut down the Manchester UK police station for 3 days earlier this month. It forced police officers to rely on other jurisdictions to access the country’s criminal data base as the Manchester station was disconnected from the …

Security vendors are warning of a wave of ‘scareware’ attacks that use false Conficker alerts to trick victims into installing fake antivirus software on their computers. The fake antivirus programs are known as scareware because of their technique of performing …

Indy.com reported in early April 2009 about the waledec bot riding along with Conficker virus. “Conficker, for the first time, moved beyond sitting quietly on millions of Windows computers worldwide to infecting other vulnerable computers. This means many more consumers …

The spammers and scammers are usually pretty speedy to “monetize” (I really hate that word!) a situation. For example, in the PIFTS.exe matter, malicious websites were updated to use PIFTS.exe as a lure before Symantec were able to react publicly …