Rustock Botnet Responsible for 40 Percent of Spam
More than 40 percent of the world’s spam is coming from a single network of computers that computer security experts continue to battle,
Posts filed under 'Bulletins'
Project Honey Pot Statistics – 1 Billionth Spam Message
On Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 06:20 (GMT), Project Honey Pot achieved a
milestone: receiving its 1 billionth spam message.
US-CERT: Waledac Trojan Horse Spam Campaign Circulating
US-CERT is aware of public reports of malicious code circulating via spam email messages related to bogus terror attacks in the recipient’s local area.
MS09-002 exploit in the wild
The Internet Storm Center is reporting that several AV vendors have confirmed that the recently patch IE 7 vulnerability (MS-09-002 Uninitialized Memory Corruption) has been reverse engineered by the malware writers (so quickly!)
Are you ready to see your spam volume Jump 10 times?
It took less than 3 months for the Spammers to ramp up their production to 90% of where it was pre-McColo takedown in November 2008 according to a number of reports and graphs available online.
Don’t lose your life savings to false ‘MySpace’ friend
They say you can be a dog on the Internet and no one would ever know. That sad truth has bleed Shane Symington out of almost $200,000 USD (£130,000) – all of his life savings
Lance Atkinson only fined $63,400 USD by New Zealand because he ‘co-operated with authorities
Lance Atkinson, a prolific spammer since 2005 as part of ‘HerbalKing’ the
‘#1 worst spam gang of 2007, 2008′ according to the Spamhaus ROSKO list has been fined only $92,715 AUS (about $63,400 USD) by authorities because, according to Justice Christine French of the High Court in Christchurch, of the co-operation and candor of Lance in the early stages of the investigation.
CAN-SPAM act now 5 years old – results in 300% increase in spam
The CAN-SPAM Act was passed into law in the USA in December of 2003 or some 5 years ago. What is the track record of that law? Has it been effective in stopping all spam?
DSBL is no longer
The DSBL list which was used by some anti-spam systems to block open relay and proxy servers that could be used by spammers to forward spam has been taken off-line.
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) re-gaining in the Billion-dollar underground economy
Over at IT Business they are reporting that Internet Relay Chat or IRC is again a popular place for Cyber Criminals to hang out and market their ill-gotten gains. With a market estimated at 7 Billion dollars you can be sure that they aren’t going away anytime soon.
