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Phishers Phished! | TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro

Phishers Phished! January 30th, 2008 by Jovi Umawing The ease of use and availability of tools used for malicious schemes has always been a problem for security companies, since these greatly contribute to the quick proliferation of codes and files that can affect Internet users. Web sites that represent...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 01-30-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, In the News, Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing
Yet another Tax Scam - SANS Internet Storm Center

Yet another Tax Scam Published: 2008-01-29, Last Updated: 2008-01-29 15:51:58 UTC by Deborah Hale (Version: 1) Consumers Beware.... Tax Scam's via email, online and by telephone are ramping up, especially with the prospect of receiving the "rebate" from the Fed's. A report from Kansas...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 01-30-2008
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, In the News, Spam\Phishing
Symantec Security Response Weblog: It’s Not a Wonderful Second Life

It’s Not a Wonderful Second Life It’s not very far into 2008 and sadly we are already seeing some of our predictions on the security trends of 2008 come true. I blogged earlier that our security analyses expected to see old style cybercrimes turn up in virtual worlds. While it’s not clear if any crime...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 01-28-2008
Filed under: In the News, Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing, Security
Comcast starts blocking email willy-nilly - The INQUIRER

Comcast starts blocking email willy-nilly Spam voting By Nick Farrell : Friday, 21 December 2007, 10:21 AM A NEW feature on Comcast which blocks email identified as spam has been causing merry hell. In the good old days if two people decide that an email from an outfit is spam, that email will go into...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 12-21-2007
Filed under: In the News, Internet News, Spam\Phishing
Red Cross money mule recruitment - F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab

Red Cross money mule recruitment Posted by Mikko @ 20:43 GMT | Money mule recruitment is getting more and more blatant. We just ran across a spam run that uses Red Cross as the lure to recruit people for money laundering. Example below (emphasis ours): From: American Red Cross (glurp@sxhighway.gov.cn...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 12-20-2007
Filed under: In the News, Spam\Phishing, Security
F-Secure : News from the Lab - Storm and NFL

Storm and NFL Posted by Patrik @ 15:41 GMT Today we started seeing new Storm mails and the web pages changed layouts completely. Now the theme is National Football League ( NFL ) which is timely considering the 2007 NFL season started on the 6th of September. The website even has the correct score, statistics...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 09-11-2007
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, In the News, Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing
King Soloway Sings Guilty | TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro

King Soloway Sings Guilty March 18th, 2008 by JM Hipolito The man who has reportedly raked in $300,000 from spam operations pleaded guilty to charges of fraud and tax evasion last friday, PC World reports . Aptly dubbed “King of Spam” by authorities, Robert Soloway was arrested in May 2007 by the US...

Posted to Chris Mosby at myITforum.com (Weblog) by cmosby on 03-19-2008
Filed under: In the News, Spam\Phishing, Cybercrime

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Phishers Phished! | TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro

Yet another Tax Scam - SANS Internet Storm Center

Symantec Security Response Weblog: It’s Not a Wonderful Second Life

Comcast starts blocking email willy-nilly - The INQUIRER

Red Cross money mule recruitment - F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab

F-Secure : News from the Lab - Storm and NFL

King Soloway Sings Guilty | TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro