Hackers are rather busy these days with new bold outlooks as they attack large companies and websites which could ultimately lead to a rash of spam emails. The latest hacking incident comes from a group of hackers who have yet to be indentified hitting the jobs section of the Washington Post website. The hackers made [...]
To our surprise, this festive season came with a huge decline in spam volumes. Unlike the past years where Christmas and New Year celebrations where opportunities grabbed by greedy spammers, end-users were spared the typical flood of unsolicited e-mails this time around. Instead, the levels of spam e-mails went down from about 200 billion in [...]
It’s the season to be scary as Halloween fast approaches us and spammers get ready to take advantage of this holiday. Internet security company Symantec, has already detected several Halloween themed spam e-mails in circulation. These spammed e-mails claim to promote e-cards, gift cards, jackpots, sweepstakes, personalized gifts, online contests, printed products and even costumes. [...]
It may appear as though the e-mails are from iTunes, but they are actually from a malicious source disguised as iTunes. The e-mail arrives with the subject title “Your receipt #” followed by a few random numbers. It is supposedly from “donotreply@itunes.com” and contains a fake iTunes receipt for a ridiculously expensive purchase. Naturally, a [...]
In this day and age almost everybody that has access to the internet also has an online e-mail account. And if you have an e-mail account, spam is definitely an issue that you have encountered. According to Trend Micro’s report covering January to June 2010, spam makes up for 97 percent of all e-mails in [...]
The mighty Zeus Trojan is a specifically designed to steal the banking details of its victims by logging their keystrokes. Once this Trojan is inside a system it is never easy to get it out, even if you gear your PC up with an antivirus program. This is why cyber-criminals are so determined to spread [...]
