Tag Archives: Spam news

Spammers have begun sending out fake LinkedIn notices that have spam attached to them. At first glance they look like the notices you get when someone wants to add you to their network but they have a linked image attached …

Office supply retailer Office Depot is the latest company to be brand-jacked by spammers. The company says they’ve received many reports of both customers and non-customers receiving fake order receipts for merchandise they never bought. The order total appears to …

A new spam campaign has begun spreading across the net. Disguised to look like a ticket purchase email from Midwest Airlines, it is an attempt to spread the Zbot Trojan. The email thanks the recipient for using the company’s new …

Six people, five men and one woman, have been arrested for their parts in a huge phishing ring. UK authorities say that the group has so far stolen over $550,000 and compromised over 20,000 credit card and bank accounts but …

A new spam statistics report is out that names the top 10 most spammed states. Let’s take a look: North Carolina-91.3 New Hampshire-91.3% Washington-91.3% Utah- 91.5% Illinois-91.8% Tennessee-92.1% Indiana-92.7% South Carolina-93.6% Alabama- 94.4% Idaho- 95.2% North Carolina, New Hampshire, and …

A security firm has put together a top 10 most wanted list of botnets. These botnets are responsible for pumping out the majority of the global spam volume which is now at a whopping 230 billon messages a day. Most …

A new study says most ISPs simply don’t make outbound spam a priority and are reluctant to do much about it. While inbound spam is highly fought with a variety of tools including spam filters, junk folders and blacklists, outbound …

Many people won’t recognize the name Gary Thuerk, or remember that the company he used to work for once challenged IBM for computer supremacy of the planet, but all of us have to suffer from his legacy. Thuerk invented spam. …

A lawyer in San Francisco won his lawsuit against a spammer and was awarded $7,000.  Daniel Balsam sued under California’s anti-spam law and was awarded $1,000 for every spam message he received from Trancos Inc., a Redwood City based advertising …

Security experts say spam levels have continued to surge in the first few months of 2010.  Spam levels in February rose to 89.4%, a nearly 6% increase from January.  The rise is blamed on the Rustock and Grum botnets in …