Filed in archive Spam News
by Sue Walsh on February 29, 2008
We're counting down the top 10 spamming countries in the world and award one nation with the dubious honor of being miles ahead of the competition in relaying SPAM. This is our interpretation of...
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Filed in archive Spam
by Sue Walsh on February 29, 2008
A new peer to peer botnet is on the scene, and it's even more powerful than Storm. It's begun attacking U.S. based enterprises, educational institutions and ISPs. Named the MayDay botnet,...
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Filed in archive Malware
by Sue Walsh on February 29, 2008
Secure works has released an excellent analysis of the Ozdock/Mega-D trojan, whuch is responsible for creating and adding to the Mega-D botnet. Here is an excerpt: Some sample Ozdok filenames are...
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Filed in archive Spam News
by Sue Walsh on February 29, 2008
Researchers with Marshal's TRACE team have identified the top 6 botnets in terms of each's share of the world's total spam production: Srizbi, 40 percent of spam Rustock, 21 percent...
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Filed in archive Spam
by Sue Walsh on February 29, 2008
McAfee is warning that the number of spammers using the out of office or "vacation" functions of web-based email services to send spam is in the rise. These auto-responders are configured to...
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Here is another great video from DeepSec2007. This one is a talk about the Economics of Information Security. From the summary: The economics of information security has recently become a thriving and...
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Filed in archive Spam
by Sue Walsh on February 25, 2008
A new study by the European Network and Information Security Agency(ENISA) is reporting that spam is posing an increasing threat to corporate security and bandwith costs. Even though only 6% of all...
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Hello Readers! We at IGotSpam?! would like to hear from you, the readers. We want to know what you think. What things do you want to see more of? What things do you wish there was less of? Please...
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Filed in archive Malware
by Sue Walsh on February 25, 2008
CIO.com has an excellent article about the Cybercriminal Ecosystem. It examines the evolution of crimeware and how malware creation groups follow the organization of legit groups. Here is an excerpt:...
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My friend Alec Saunders is having a call at 11am Eastern Standard Time (GMT-5) related to phishing-hackers setting up legitimate-sounding or looking sites upon which to capture your private...
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Filed in archive Malware
by Sue Walsh on February 23, 2008
The latest newsworthy event being exploited by spammers is the recent lunar eclipse. According to a security alert issued by Websense, a new wave of spam has emerged, promising videos of the eclipse....
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Filed in archive Malware
by Sue Walsh on February 20, 2008
Here is an interesting video about malware and threat management. It is from DeepSec2007, an indepth security conference that took place in Europe this past November. Here is an excerpt from the...
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Filed in archive Malware
by Sue Walsh on February 20, 2008
According to a report by security vendor PC Tools, Russia has overtaken China as the malware leader, accounting for over 27% of it. China is second with 26%. Russia is also a huge producer of spam....
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Filed in archive Spam News
by Sue Walsh on February 19, 2008
ComputerWeekly is reporting that a man in Tokyo, Japan has been arrested for allegedly sending over 2 million spam messages. Authorities say he bought 600,000 email addresses for about $900US and made...
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By Nicholas Blank An Exchange organization may find itself blacklisted - due to a virus infestation on an otherwise well guarded network. Here's the scenario - One day out of the blue a...
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Filed in archive Spam
by Sue Walsh on February 17, 2008
Here is an interesting and informative talk given by a Systems Administrators about BGP prefix hijacking and how spammers use it to evade RBL's. Here is an excerpt from the description: BGP prefix...
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Filed in archive Spam
by Sue Walsh on February 17, 2008
Modern Mechanix recently featured an article from one of it's 1934 issues that reveals something shocking-spam existed even then! That was more than 70 years ago! It's true! The article talks...
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Filed in archive Malware
by Sue Walsh on February 15, 2008
Researchers at Symantec and McAfee are reporting a spam that carries a Trojan horse masquarading as a video of Hillary Clinton. "Hilary [sic] Clinton visited her campaign headquarters in...
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Filed in archive Spam
by Sue Walsh on February 15, 2008
We're back in business folks. The past week has been fraught with DDoS attacks and cranky servers and I apologize. Please bear with us as we get caught up and back into the swing of things, and...
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Filed in archive Spam
by Sue Walsh on February 13, 2008
You may have noticed that IGotSpam has been unavailable for much of the last two days. This is because Creative Weblogging became the victim on a DDoS attack, presumably from a botnet, and quite...
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Filed in archive Malware
by Sue Walsh on February 10, 2008
According to AVG, the website for antivirus vendor AvSoft Technologies has been hacked, resulting in a virus being installed on visitor's computers. The malware is being hosted in the site's...
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Filed in archive Spam News
by Sue Walsh on February 09, 2008
Websense Security Labs is reporting that spammers have found away around Windows Live Mail's CAPTCHA system and are using bots to create thousands of accounts to spam with. Since the Microsoft...
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Filed in archive Spam News
by Sue Walsh on February 09, 2008
A U.S. judge has ordered a Las Vegas company to stop sending spam promoting it's weight-loss and anti-aging products. The judge also fined Sili Neutraceuticals nearly $6.2 million dollars for...
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Filed in archive Spam
by Sue Walsh on February 08, 2008
Here's an interesting talk about spammer economics and behavior and how to fight spam using connection management from the 21st Large Installation System Administration Conference. It provides an...
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