Tag Archives: spammers

Michael Hampton at the Homeland Stupidity blog has discovered a new spammer-the government! He reports receiving spam from the Overseas Security Council, a branch of the State Department. The spam came from an employee address and hawked a get rich …

The best defense against spam is continuously educating the email user community.  As administrators we may sometimes get a little too hung up on the technocratic methods of preventing spam. Although the technical details are important, our email users must …

Security experts are predicting that the next wave of phishing spam will attempt to exploit the recent financial woes on Wall Street. They say scammers are likely to start soon, using people’s fears of bank failures like that of Washington …

The New York Times is reporting that the current economic crisis has led to a spoof of the classic 419 (aka Nigeria) spam scam. Everyone who has an email address has received at least one 419 spam. Named after the …

ISP Intercage, dubbed a “major hub of cybercrime”, with 78% of its domains and mail servers used for malicious purposes, has been cut off by its upstream provider,Pacific Internet Exchange. Intercage president Emil Kacperski has ignored complaints about that activity for …

A precedent has now been set in South Africa.  Repeat spam offenders are now on notice.  Spammers now have a price on their heads and their names on a Wall of Shame.  It would be nice, if this was a …

Rustock and Srizbi, two of the world’s biggest spam botnets, may be connected. Researchers have discovered that the two botnets share the same malware delivery method, a Trojan called Trojan.Exchange, which is activated when unsuspecting users click on malicious links …

A botnet created by a trojan virus is sometimes referred to as SpamThru. According to the Don’t Bounce Spam organization, spammers have become very sophisticated in the way they manage their botnets , and the SpamThru Trojan is the leading …

A massive new spam attack has security vendors warning IT admins to ramp up their spam filters. The spam is of the fake but lurid headline variety, but this time the fake headline targets presidential candidate Barack Obama. The email …

In the United States the John McCain and Barack Obama presidential campaigns are not the only events cranking up into full swing. With vice presidential running mates now selected, there are recent warnings about political email and blog spam increasing. …