Spam Reports  

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  • By Gabriela Vatu
  • June 7th, 2017
Fancy Bear Hackers Target Montenegro As Country Joins NATO

Fancy Bear Hackers Target Montenegro As Country Joins NATO

Ahead of Montenegro's integration into NATO, hackers targeted the country's government with detailed attack

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • October 30th, 2016
Serial Spammer Pleads Guilty, Faces Up to Ten Years in Jail

Serial Spammer Pleads Guilty, Faces Up to Ten Years in Jail

Livingstone faces up to ten years in prison

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • October 20th, 2016
Locky Spam Numbers Go Down as Ransomware Switches to LNK Files

Locky Spam Numbers Go Down as Ransomware Switches to LNK Files

Locky group changes spam & infection technique

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • October 20th, 2016
Spambot Checks Spam Blacklists for the Victim's IP to Avoid Wasting Its Time

Spambot Checks Spam Blacklists for the Victim's IP to Avoid Wasting Its Time

Sarvdap spambot used in Andromeda spam campaigns

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • October 16th, 2016
Locky Ransomware Accounted for 97 Percent of All Malicious Email Attachments

Locky Ransomware Accounted for 97 Percent of All Malicious Email Attachments

Exploit kit activity slows down dramatically

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • September 29th, 2016
Tofsee Botnet Comes Back to Life with Massive Spam Floods

Tofsee Botnet Comes Back to Life with Massive Spam Floods

Tofsee activity spiked in September 2016

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • September 27th, 2016
Spamhaus Warns of a Rise in IPv4 Network Hijacks

Spamhaus Warns of a Rise in IPv4 Network Hijacks

Spammers behind most of today's network hijacking events

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • September 26th, 2016
Dev Trolled Spammers for Two Years with Bot That Sent Random Email Replies

Dev Trolled Spammers for Two Years with Bot That Sent Random Email Replies

Some spammers kept answering for days in a row

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • September 18th, 2016
Email Bomb Attack Hits 100+ Government Accounts

Email Bomb Attack Hits 100+ Government Accounts

Spammers are developing a new service, according to Spamhaus

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • August 28th, 2016
Kelihos Botnet Triples Its Size in Just 24 Hours

Kelihos Botnet Triples Its Size in Just 24 Hours

Kelihos starts delivering ransomware and banking trojans

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • August 24th, 2016
Spam Flood Delivers New and Improved GozNym Banking Trojan

Spam Flood Delivers New and Improved GozNym Banking Trojan

New trojan version targets 13 German banks

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • August 22nd, 2016
Smishing Campaign Uses Twilio to Deliver DroidJack Malware

Smishing Campaign Uses Twilio to Deliver DroidJack Malware

Same number used earlier to deliver spam with PayPal lures

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • August 20th, 2016
Dridex Returns with New Spam Campaign After Two-Month Hiatus

Dridex Returns with New Spam Campaign After Two-Month Hiatus

Dridex now focuses on high-value targets

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • August 18th, 2016
Locky Ransomware Spam Campaigns Switch to Macro-Based Distribution

Locky Ransomware Spam Campaigns Switch to Macro-Based Distribution

Dridex spam distribution stops altogether

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • July 28th, 2016
Locky Ransomware Was Top Malware Threat for Q2 2016

Locky Ransomware Was Top Malware Threat for Q2 2016

Q2 quieter than Q1 thanks to Angler and Nuclear shutdowns

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • July 14th, 2016
Huge Spam Wave Drops Locky Variant That Can Work Without an Internet Connection

Huge Spam Wave Drops Locky Variant That Can Work Without an Internet Connection

New Locky variant uses a weaker encryption method

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • June 22nd, 2016
Necurs Botnet Comes Back to Life After Three-Week Hiatus

Necurs Botnet Comes Back to Life After Three-Week Hiatus

World's largest spam offender comes back to life

 
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