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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • June 10th, 2016
Necurs Botnet Goes Down, Shutting Off Dridex and Locky Spam

Necurs Botnet Goes Down, Shutting Off Dridex and Locky Spam

All Necurs activity stopped on June 1, down ever since

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • June 1st, 2016
Phishing Emails Increase 789 Percent, Ransomware Is Their Favorite Payload

Phishing Emails Increase 789 Percent, Ransomware Is Their Favorite Payload

Cryptowall, Locky and TeslaCrypt were the most popular

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • May 28th, 2016
Biggest Spam Flood in Years Distributes Locky Ransomware

Biggest Spam Flood in Years Distributes Locky Ransomware

Spam wave originated from Indian and Vietnamese IPs

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • May 7th, 2016
Spam Alert: Skype Spam Delivers Trojan Disguised as Image

Spam Alert: Skype Spam Delivers Trojan Disguised as Image

Affecting users in Japan, India, and the Philippines

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • April 22nd, 2016
Old Black Hat SEO Technique Used to Deliver Spam

Old Black Hat SEO Technique Used to Deliver Spam

Old SEO trick finds new life in spammy Web pages

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • March 29th, 2016
Scam Alert: Speeding Tickets Citations Sent via Email

Scam Alert: Speeding Tickets Citations Sent via Email

US police sound the alarm on a new email scam

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • February 20th, 2016
Over 1,600 Users Fall Victim to Zika Virus Spam Campaign

Over 1,600 Users Fall Victim to Zika Virus Spam Campaign

Zika virus spawns spam campaign capitalizing recent events

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • January 30th, 2016
Serial Spammer Arrested During the Darkode Raid Gets No Jail Time

Serial Spammer Arrested During the Darkode Raid Gets No Jail Time

Naveed Ahmed, aka Nav, sentenced to two years probation

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • January 13th, 2016
Waledac (Kelihos) Spam Botnet Used for Pump-and-Dump Stock Fraud

Waledac (Kelihos) Spam Botnet Used for Pump-and-Dump Stock Fraud

Marijuana growers might discover themselves as the victims of a stock fraud that originated from online spam

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • January 12th, 2016
Verizon Accused of Helping Cybercriminals by Routing Millions of Stolen IP Addresses

Verizon Accused of Helping Cybercriminals by Routing Millions of Stolen IP Addresses

Company fails to stop spammers, ignores reports

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • January 11th, 2016
WhatsApp Users Targeted by Sneaky Spam Campaign

WhatsApp Users Targeted by Sneaky Spam Campaign

WhatsApp-themed spam delivers Nivdort malware

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • December 18th, 2015
Dropbox, Google+ Abused to Send Spam Messages for Dating Sites

Dropbox, Google+ Abused to Send Spam Messages for Dating Sites

Spammers find clever way to deliver their emails

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • November 13th, 2015
Google Moves to Implement Strict DMARC for Gmail, Email Security Is Up Overall

Google Moves to Implement Strict DMARC for Gmail, Email Security Is Up Overall

Better phishing protection is coming to email providers

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • November 9th, 2015
Beware of a New Apple ID Phishing Campaign

Beware of a New Apple ID Phishing Campaign

Apple users under attack by a vicious phishing campaign

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • November 7th, 2015
PhishReporter, a Free Outlook Add-In for Reporting Phishing Attacks

PhishReporter, a Free Outlook Add-In for Reporting Phishing Attacks

It can also be used to report annoying spam

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • November 3rd, 2015
Spam Botnet Leverages Vulnerable WordPress Sites

Spam Botnet Leverages Vulnerable WordPress Sites

Botnet infects machines via Linux binaries and PHP scripts

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  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • August 26th, 2015
Facebook "Spam King" Finally Pleads Guilty, Can Face 3 Years in Prison <em>Bloomberg</em>

Facebook "Spam King" Finally Pleads Guilty, Can Face 3 Years in Prison Bloomberg

Sanford Wallace also faces a $250,000 / €217,000 fine

 
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