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Traffic Ticket Spam Powered by Cutwail Botnet Leads to Phoenix Exploit Kit The old “uniform traffic ticket” scams are back and experts found that their numbers increased in an attempt to drive as many users as possible towards compromised websites that host the Phoenix Exploit Kit. Researchers from Trustwave SpiderLabs determined that the links from the phony email lead to hija...	24 April 2012 14:01 GMT

Fake FDIC Emails Distribute Trojan M86 Security warns of a new spam run that generates malware-carrying emails purporting to come from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).According to the M86 researchers, the emails are sent by Cutwail, a spam botnet which at its peak accounted for over 40% of the daily junk mail traffic.The rogue notific...	17 February 2011 03:17 GMT

Spammers Use Free Hosting Providers as Redirectors Security researchers warn that spammers are increasingly abusing free hosting services to install redirectors with the purpose of hiding their real spam sites.This multi-layered approach gives spammers more flexibility and makes their websites harder to detect, block and shut down.The technique is combined with a sim...	10 December 2010 13:33 GMT

New IRS-Themed Scam in Circulation Security researchers warn that fake email messages purporting to be from the IRS are attempting to get receivers infected by directing them to a malicious website. This malware distribution campaign has been tracked back to the Cutwail spam botnet.This new scam has been reported by email and Web protection company MX...	10 September 2009 10:29 GMT

Spam Levels Recover from Sudden Drop As the security researchers speculated back in November, the happy times when fewer junk mails hit our inboxes were not bound to last. Dropping to under 40% of what they were before the takedown of infamous hoster McColo, the spam levels are now at over 60 percent. On November 11, following a collaborative effort fro...	10 December 2008 10:35 GMT

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