Tag: Spam

Facebook users in Australia and New Zealand have been targeted by an email scam containing an attachment that installs a password stealer on their computer.

If you’ve ever received a spam email, or more likely, a few thousand, you will have seen a common thread among all of them. According to research from MessageLabs Intelligence, certain patterns in word usage can be identified in the chaos.

Microsoft has successfully taken legal action to shut down the control structure of the network behind the Waledac botnet that is responsible for 1.5 billion spam emails daily. In the US District Court of Eastern Virginia, a federal judge granted Microsoft’s request against 273 domain names believed to be hubs for control of the Waledac […]