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  • Gmail CAPTCHA cracked

    Twenty per cent success rate sufficient to create thousands of spam accounts. Gmail has become the latest free webmail service to have its CAPTCHAs cracked by spammers. Following the recent news of the Yahoo Mail and Windows Live Mail CAPTCHAs having been cracked, the news of Gmail ‘s CAPTCHA being surpassed will come as little…

  • Malware going local

    Report sees trend toward greater localisation of threats. McAfee ‘s latest Sage report focuses on increased localisation in malware, with spam, phishing and malcode all showing great improvements in their use of local languages and targeting of regional resources and computing methods. The report carries stories from various regions around the globe, detailing the popularity…

  • Japanese super-spammer arrested

    Tokyo man sent 2.2 billion emails. A 25-year-old man was arrested in Tokyo last week, suspected of sending 2.2 billion spam emails. Yukio Shiina was picked up by police on Friday, after his ISP reported him sending huge amounts of email. Suspected to have bought some 600,000 email addresses, he made a 2,000% profit on…

  • Storm Valentines run under way

    Seasonal spam and malware barrage gets going. The expected run of ‘Storm’ spams, pushing links to their latest line of malware disguised as Valentine’s messages, has begun, with many reports of spams appearing all over the world. The Storm botnet controllers have got their timing back on track, after a previous batch of Valentine messages…

  • Live Mail CAPTCHA system bypassed

    Spammers use botnet to register accounts on popular free webmail service. Spammers have written a program that cracks the CAPTCHAS used by the Windows Live Mail registration system. The program, thought to have been installed on a large botnet of compromised systems, enables the automated creation of email accounts which can then be used to…

  • Complex attack targets Better Business Bureau

    Sophisticated scam uses personalised mails, real site redirects. A highly sophisticated email phishing scam is using a redirection flaw in the website of the Better Business Bureau (BBB) to lead victims to install spyware. The emails making contact with potential victims are highly targeted, with personalised information and links to the genuine BBB site to…

  • FTC fines spammers over $2.5 million

    Drug pushers busted for phony claims and CAN-SPAM breaches. After a successful case brought by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), a pharmaceuticals firm and its head have been fined over $2.5 million and ordered to stop spamming and misrepresenting products. The company, Sili Neutraceuticals, and its boss Brian McDaid were found to have made…

  • 419 scammers plead guilty in US

    African trio admit attempts to defraud via spam. Three men, two from Nigeria and a third from Senegal, entered guilty pleas in a Brooklyn, New York, courtroom last week after being deported from the Netherlands to face trial for running a series of ‘419’ spam scams. Operating in the usual manner for such scams, the…

  • US agencies report vishing, extortion, danger of hacking

    FBI name used in email attacks, CIA warns of power supply hacks. US security and law enforcement agencies were more than usually active in the computer security world last week, with the FBI alerting on increases in voice phishing attempts and a spam campaign posing as mails from the agency itself, while a CIA representative…

  • Stormy love letters

    Storm botnet celebrates birthday with new wave of spam. Earlier this week malware experts warned of likely increased activity of the Storm botnet around Valentine’s Day next month. However, the botherders seem to have taken this as a prompt as, even though Valentine’s Day is still a month away, the botnet has since been responsible…