Spammers Target Users’ Personal Information Through Obama Campaigns

MessageLabs, an Internet security company, reported on June 17, 2008 that a bogus e-mail, from two clusters of spam campaigns, uses the typical

» SPAMfighter News 2008/7/5

Spammers Spread Malware Under Beijing Earthquake Garb

As per the news published by theregister on June 19, 2008, botnet operators are suspected of using fictitious reports of an earthquake around Beijing, with

» SPAMfighter News 2008/7/5

F-Secure: Filing E-Tax Has Its Own Risks

Security services company, F-Secure Corporation, has warned tax payers in Australia to be highly cautious of phishing attacks while filing their taxes

» SPAMfighter News 2008/7/5

90% of E-Mails Sent Worldwide Comprise Spam

According to Internet security company, Secure Computing, nearly 90% of e-mails exchanged among people globally are spam. This has given rise to increased

» SPAMfighter News 2008/7/5

York University Students Become Target of a Phishing Scam

According to recent publication by NOUSE york university on June 18, 2008, students of York University are being targeted with a phishing

» SPAMfighter News 2008/7/4

Spam Mails on Natural Disasters & Rising Fuel Prices Abound

Security vendor, Symantec, is warning e-mail users to be wary of scam e-mails that are seeking donations for victims of natural calamities in China and

» SPAMfighter News 2008/7/4

Class-Action Lawsuit Soon To Be Settled By TD Ameritrade

The largest online broker service, TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. is about to resolve a class-action lawsuit in connection of online pilfering of contact data

» SPAMfighter News 2008/7/4

Spam Messages Take Cover under Google Docs

Cyber security firm, McAfee, revealed that spammers are using Google Docs to spread their junk messages. Their messages contain Google Doc links, which are

» SPAMfighter News 2008/7/3

S.Korean President Cites Spam as Crime Threatening Internet Users’ Trust

Lee Myung-bak, President of South Korea said on June 16, 2008, while giving the inaugural speech at the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and

» SPAMfighter News 2008/7/3

MySpace Wins Legal Suit Against a Prominent Spammer

According to a news item from Associated Press published on June 16, 2008, MySpace could collect $6 Million from an infamous Internet marketer whom the

» SPAMfighter News 2008/7/3

FTC’s Drive to Check Father’s Day Phishing E-Cards

Cyber security experts and Web analysts reported that phishers and spammers proactively worked flooding the mailboxes of unsuspecting users with phishing

» SPAMfighter News 2008/7/2

Phishing Scam Targets TD Banknorth Customers

TD Banknorth consumers are hit with an online scam distributing a phishing e-mail that seeks personal information and likely installs a dangerous malicious

» SPAMfighter News 2008/7/1

New Vishing Scams Rise at an Alarming Pace

Trend Micro, a vendor for security services, on June 13, 2008, said that the continuous rise in vishing frauds in which spam mails are sent to steal users'

» SPAMfighter News 2008/7/1

Phishing Scam Targets Tulsa Employees

Both Tulsa Teachers Credit Union (TTCU) and Tulsa Municipal Employees Credit Union have reported that several "phishing" schemes launched to

» SPAMfighter News 2008/6/30

Supply-Chain Businesses Hire Storm Botnet for Illegal Drug Sales

IronPort Systems, a provider of software security solutions, on June 11, 2008, announced that a new research has detected a connection between the malware

» SPAMfighter News 2008/6/30

E-Mails Targeting Businessmen With False Claim of Containing Official Complaints

The Better Business Bureau and Federal Bureau of Investigation have issued a warning for business owners against a phony e-mail that might target them and

» SPAMfighter News 2008/6/30

AOTA Summit Discusses Spamming, Phishing & The Role of Security Companies

Hemanshu Nigam, Chief Security Officer, MySpace and Fox Interactive, said in his opening lines of a speech delivered at the AOTA (Authentication and Online

» SPAMfighter News 2008/6/27

Phishing Scam Targets at Families of Deceased Army Soldiers

In a new phishing e-mail scam that targets at the Families of Fallen Soldiers, the con artists are promising compensation to the user in return for personal

» SPAMfighter News 2008/6/27

Spammers Exploit NDR to Send Mass Phony E-mails

According to a research completed by computer security researchers, 90% of e-mails arriving at company inboxes are spam, while spammers use a number of ways

» SPAMfighter News 2008/6/27

E-mail Scam Phishes on Andrew Johnson Bank Customers

Andrew Johnson Bank based in Greeneville has issued a warning to its customers that an e-mail scam purporting to be from the bank is circulating on the

» SPAMfighter News 2008/6/27

Users of Australian Recruitment Company Attacked With Resumes Containing Trojan

On June 4, 2008, the MessageLabs Researchers revealed that hackers are exploiting an option of mail forwarding used by many recruitment companies, which

» SPAMfighter News 2008/6/26

Australia Suffers More From Cyber Crime Than Rest of The World

A research by AVG, the maker of security software, revealed that the increasing number of online purchasers, who make the payments but never get the ordered

» SPAMfighter News 2008/6/26

Symantec Released its State of the Spam report for June 2008

The monthly State of Spam Report for June 2008 by Symantec showed that spam mails accounted for around 80% of total mails. A lot of these mails were about

» SPAMfighter News 2008/6/26

Social Networking Users Concerned About Spam Than Security of Personal Information

Europeans using social-networking sites are more frustrated by advertising and spam (36%) than they are concerned about the safety of their personal

» SPAMfighter News 2008/6/26

Phishing E-Mail Seeks Details of Penn State Account Holders

According to Robin Anderson, Director of Multimedia Technology at Information Technology Services (ITS), staff members of Penn State University including

» SPAMfighter News 2008/6/26

European Computer Users Falling Victims to Cyber Crime

Ipsos conducted a research for AVG Technologies in which it revealed that more than one in 5 computer users in Europe are victims of cyber-crime while about

» SPAMfighter News 2008/6/26

Phishing Scam Hit Another Missouri Bank

Spammers are phishing on people by using Boone County National Bank's logo in e-mail that directs recipients to follow a link and provides personal

» SPAMfighter News 2008/6/26

Phishing & Spam Incidences Declined on Hong Kong DNS

The Hong Kong Domain Name Registration Company (HKDNR) compiled in a report named ".hk Domain Name Spamvertising & Phishing Report" disclosed

» SPAMfighter News 2008/6/26

New Spam Attacks Instant Messenger Users

Symantec, a vendor of security services, has spotted a form of Instant Messaging (IM) spam that pretends to offer the recipient an opportunity to inspect

» SPAMfighter News 2008/6/26

American Airlines Warned Against a Phishing Scam

The users of AAdvantage frequent flier program has been cautioned by American Airlines of an email scam which appears to have come from the airline and

» SPAMfighter News 2008/6/26

UK Surfers Increasingly Suffer From Online ID Fraud

According to Experian, a credit information body, computer users are increasingly being victimized through phishing scams in spite of strong awareness about

» SPAMfighter News 2008/6/23

Spammers Gain Higher Profits by Touting Fake Pharmaceuticals

The Security Specialists at Cisco Systems, security services vendor, said on June 11, 2008 that some extremely prolific spammers used to advertise products

» SPAMfighter News 2008/6/23

Orange Savings Bank Cautions Residents of New Phishing Scam

Orange Savings Bank situated in Orange, Texas, has issued a warning to its customers to look out for phishing e-mails that claim to be from the bank and

» SPAMfighter News 2008/6/23

Hitman Spreading Fear Through New Spam

According to Police Officials of West Wiltshire, new spam mails from a pretended hitman demanding £10,000 have been distributed across thousands of

» SPAMfighter News 2008/6/23

Victims of Internet Frauds Increasing

The IC3, Internet Crime Complaint Centre, informs that because of lack of proper background checks, the Internet users are falling prey to online fraud in

» SPAMfighter News 2008/6/21

Spammers Use Additional Communication Means to Target Social Networks

According to a research by Cloudmark, the messaging specialist, and Researcher Harris, spammers are currently focusing on an array of other communication

» SPAMfighter News 2008/6/21

Spam Mail Attract UK Residents with Offer for Fake Refund

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned the general public on June 6, 2008 about spam e-mails containing different versions of fake refund

» SPAMfighter News 2008/6/21

Malware Hitting Surfers via Hallmark E-Card

Security Experts at Trend Micro are asking computer users to be wary of an e-mail that contains an e-card apparently from Hallmark, the developer of

» SPAMfighter News 2008/6/21

Life Insurance Spam Emerged as The Latest Spam Tactic in May 2008

A new kind of spam attack that focuses on a short-lived e-mail but yields for the spammer potentially high returns has come into prominence, as reported by

» SPAMfighter News 2008/6/21

US Spammer Challenged the Va. Anti-Spam Law

According to the news published by redOrbit on June 10, 2008, Jeremy Jaynes an internationally known super spammer, criticized Virginia's Anti-Spam Act 2003

» SPAMfighter News 2008/6/20

Sugar Grove Fire Department Attack by 375,000 Spam Mails

On June 2, 2008, the Fire Department of Sugar Grove reported that
it got around 30 spam mails which provide everything starting from
celebrity

» SPAMfighter News 2008/6/20

Online Fraud, Phishing, Malware are Increasing

The UK Threat Assessment of organized crimes by Soca (Serious Organised Crime Agency) shows a rise in attacks on bank accounts by making use of malware, key

» SPAMfighter News 2008/6/20

Spammers Exploited Credit Crunch During May 2008

The Symantec Researchers said that spammers are exploiting slow economy to push the monetary services scams to unwary users. They also added that financial

» SPAMfighter News 2008/6/19

London Police will Pilot a Cyber Crime Program

The London Police will start a national fraud program that will ensure the banks to report e-crime.

The London Police, which covers the financial

» SPAMfighter News 2008/6/19

Estonia Requires Effective Cyber Law to Fight Against Spam

The Justice Chancellor of Estonia, Indrek Teder, said that Estonian laws do not ensure enough security to people against junk mails and he advised to mend

» SPAMfighter News 2008/6/19

Winner of Beauty Contest Victimized in Phishing Scam

Sophos, a vendor that provides IT control and security, is again reminding computer users to be wary of an online identity theft and fraud after the recent

» SPAMfighter News 2008/6/18

UK Companies Found With Insufficient Online Security

The UK-based Bell Micro, a company for value-added distribution, announced on May 29, 2008 that about 41% of UK enterprises admitted their organization

» SPAMfighter News 2008/6/18

EppiCard Phishing Scam Targeting Residents of Mississippi

Jim Hood, the Attorney General of Mississippi, is warning that users of the electronic benefit card, which offers unemployment payments or child support,

» SPAMfighter News 2008/6/18

Criminals Hosted Phishing Site on Home Office’s Crime Reduction site

Phishing fraudsters, who hacked a crime reduction Website of the Home Office, used it to host an Italian phishing site on June 2, 2008, as reported by The

» SPAMfighter News 2008/6/18

CA Canada Found Alarming Facts About Corporate Data Loss

Consumers and IT security experts in Canada feel that organizations are not taking necessary steps to safeguard personal data.

In a survey conducted

» SPAMfighter News 2008/6/18