Botnets punt Russian dog-barking translation spam
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9 out of 10 messages are junk Trojan programs, particularly those designed to steal online gaming account credentials, have become the mainstay of malware authors.â¦
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A new Trojan virus has appeared in Russian that hijacks PCs and sends spam via SMS text messages to mobile phones. After infecting a PC, the Delf-HA Trojan sends spam to the St.
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Spam messages in Chinese, Korean and Japanese are on the rise, say e-mail filtering experts.
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A computer virus posing as an electronic Christmas card is spreading across the net in many languages.
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A suspected Russian mobster is believed by U.S. law enforcement to be behind a series of phishing scams.
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The Storm botnet delivers unwanted Christmas presents.
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Malware arrives in an e-mail message, launches denial of service attack.
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This is really cool!  I finally get my own comment spam!  For some reason I felt left out of the party.  I just wasn't cool enough for the spammers to consider me worthy of their spam.  Anyway.  I implemented my own little turing test.  Now the comments say:  {{{  Turing Test: Are you a human? (required. Just type yes... this is for automated spam prevention)  }}}  While this wouldn't work for all blogs in the wild I'm sure it will work just fine here in my little corner of the blogosphere.  If spammers really want my blog enough then I'll deploy a captcha.  If they solve the captcha I'll deploy a sentient robot  which will traceroute packets back to the host and then terminate with prejudic ...
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Blog: Spammers appear to defeat Captcha and use fake Microsoft and Yahoo Web mail addresses to spread spam.
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Malware was being deployed as a Trojan Horse that attempts to disable anti-virus programs, modify registry keys, download additional files, and log keystrokes when connecting to banking websites.
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A Trojan virus has that uses infected computers to send SMS spam to mobile phones in Russia has been discovered. The Delf-HA Trojan uses the infected PC to exploit the &quot;send an SMS for free&quot; service common on a number of Russian mobile operator websites.
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An Internet Explorer vulnerability first reported yesterday is already getting a workout. Malware utilizing the hole for installation is turning up on various Russian porn sites, with more trouble expected.
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Criminals deploy zombies herded into netwoks of a few hundred to more than half a million compromised PCs. Uses vary from the simply annoying (spam attacks) to the unsavory and criminal.
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Mind your language A namedropping MSN Trojan is doing the rounds through MSN Messenger.â¦
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Domains of several new phishing sites are cropping up with known Storm worm domains. F-Secure researchers think phishers are leasing parts of the larger botnet.
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Beware of any e-mail claiming to come from "frauddep@ftc.gov"--it carries a nasty payload.
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Fuzzy PDF menace Spammers have turned a widely-used anti-spam trick - fuzzy text that computers cannot recognise - to their own advantage, according to the head of an anti-spam software developer.â¦