Spammers establishing use of artificial intelligence
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Just when experts thought the spam tide was receding, it did what tides will do. The problem's worse than ever, and image-based attacks using artificial intelligence are to blame.
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Security researcher demonstrates a way to use cross-site scripting to remotely spam an internal network printer.
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Is your computer part of a bot army, infiltrating systems and spreading spam?
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In a twist, security researchers have discovered a group of hackers who are exploiting a new category of victims -- aspiring Internet scammers.A Moroccan group called &quot;Mr. Brain&quot; is offering free phishing kits on a Web site hosted in France, said Paul Mutton, Internet services developer at Netcraft, a security company in Bath, England.The software packages make it easy to quickly set up a fraudulent Web site mimicking a known brand in order to trick people into divulging credit card details or bank account numbers. Templates for spam e-mail are also included, targeting brands such as Bank of America, eBay, PayPal, and HSBC.Mr. Brain&#39;s Web site lists the kits and what kind of details each one is capable of collecting, such as usernames, passwords or Social Security numbers. Netcraft posted screenshots on its Web site.But what the aspiring scammer doesn&#39;t know is that the phishing kits are designed to send any sensitive information that&#39;s collected back to e-mail accounts controlled by Mr. Brain, Mutton said.&quot;Obviously, that&#39;s why they are offering this stuff for free,&quot; Mutton said. &quot;I was impressed by it.&quot;Mr. Brain hides the special e-mail function in a blend of PHP scripts, one of which is encrypted, Mutton said. Just in case someone decrypts it, Mr. Brain has written at the top of the file &quot;Don&#39;t need to change anything here. Created by Mr. Brain Morocco Team.&quot;The scheme seems to be targeted at new phishers, Mutton said. Mr. Brain benefits since other wannabe scammers shoulder the cost and risk of finding an ISP (Internet Service Provider) to host the phishing site, Mutton said.&quot;Essentially, they&#39;re exploiting all these novice phishers -- basically getting them to do all the hard work,&quot; Mutton said.It&#39;s difficult to tell without further research how many of the free phishing kits linked with this latest scam are live on the Internet, but Mutton said Netcraft noticed one earlier this month targeting Bank of America.&quot;Clearly, these are actively being used in phishing attacks,&quot; Mutton said.
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Online criminals are exploiting human hopes and fears to spread spam and viruses.
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com. Spammers are trying to make their junk mail look more legit by adopting the same technologies intended to stem their message tsunamis, said a filtering firm Wednesday.
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Online criminals are thriving even in the face of new automated defenses.
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Cyber criminals are cashing in on their expertise by offering tool kits that let anyone craft attacks.
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SECURITY EXPERTS MessageLabs say that there is evidence that virus writers are working hand in hand with spammers.
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Huge crowds in social networking sites draw money-minded malware authors.
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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¦
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After analyzing a variety of common e-mail scams, a psychology professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara reports that even world-wise, skeptical computer users can be fooled.
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Latest spam blast invites recipients to see themselves in a video, but 'YouTube' link leads to malware.
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Hotmail and Yahoo! captchas defeated? Miscreants have created a strain of malware capable of setting up bogus Hotmail and Yahoo! accounts in order to send spam.â¦
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New software allows recipients of spam to band together to target known websites behind the messages. The idea is to bombard the sites with messages, slowing them down and making them more expensive to run.
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The online community/portal company&#39;s offensive against spammers began this week, when it started distributing a screensaver that conducts a denial-of-service attack against sites that market products via spam.
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Under a little-known project called Xenon, several nations are deploying sophisticated bots to troll web businesses in search