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Gaddafi’s death in spam

07

Nov

2011

“Nigerian” spammers are extremely quick to react to the world’s hottest news stories. News of the death of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi had barely even broken before a string of emails from the “relatives of the deceased” began to appear. Gaddafi’s inconsolable relatives would be amazed if they knew how many emails had been […]

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Phishers vs. customers of Russian hosting providers, new attacks on social networkers, and other virus events of October 2011

02

Nov

2011

October 2011 was marked by the increased activity of cyber fraudsters employing phishing and other social-engineering tricks in their schemes. Criminals targeted social network users and customers of Russian hosting providers. Other important events include the discovery of a new backdoor program that enabled intruders to control infected computers remotely.VKontakte users under attackFraudsters are adapting […]

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Half of all spam is relayed via Asian computers

01

Nov

2011

Do you take enough care over your personal computer? Have you kept it up-to-date with the latest anti-virus software and security patches? Those are the kinds of questions you have to ask yourself if you want to avoid contributing to the “Dirty Dozen”, Sophos’s regular research into the countries which are relaying the most spam […]

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