Two Different Frauds Struck Online Payment Service PayPal

According to the latest security reports, an online payment service, PayPal, has been found sending fake e-mails to customers, looking like its own log-in

» SPAMfighter News 2008/12/5

Phony E-mail Spreading Rumors of Closure of Several Retail Stores

Talbots Inc. at Hingham and Massachusetts has confirmed that the unidentified e-mail, claiming that the retailers have planned to shutdown all its J. Jill

» SPAMfighter News 2008/12/5

Five Held in Mumbai for Phishing Money from Bank Customers

According to the news published by The Times of India on November 21, 2008, the Crime Branch arrested a gang of five phishers in Mumbai, India, who robbed

» SPAMfighter News 2008/12/5

Hawaii National Bank Warning Customers of ‘New’ Phishing E-mail Scam

As per the latest news reports, Hawaii National Bank has issued a warning to its customers about a phishing scam that involves sending of e-mails bearing

» SPAMfighter News 2008/12/4

Vietnam Standing High Among Leading Spam Sources

On November 18, 2008, the Vietnam Information Security Association (VNISA) revealed that Vietnam, popular as a foremost Information and Communications

» SPAMfighter News 2008/12/4

Cyber Crime Targeting Hong Kong as Its New Abode

Hong Kong, with the higher rate of computer virus and spam than the world average, is speedily becoming the hot-spot for the Internet related attacks,

» SPAMfighter News 2008/12/4

IRS Alerts against Latest E-mail Scam Fooling Users on its Name

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is alerting its users about a latest e-mail scam that appears to be a legitimate official mail, but may turn out

» SPAMfighter News 2008/12/3

First National Bank Customers at the Target of Cyber Crooks

Customers of First National Bank of Bryan (Texas, USA) are receiving e-mails, purportedly from the bank, asking them to update their details on bank's

» SPAMfighter News 2008/12/3

Airline Phishing Scam Reveals Notorious Intentions of Hackers

A new phishing e-mail scam is posing a severe threat to numerous Internet users. The safe-appearing e-mail, purporting to be coming from an airline, is

» SPAMfighter News 2008/12/3

Hotmail Account Holders Vulnerable to Latest E-mail Scam

An e-mail, purporting from the team of Hotmail Customer Care, is in fact a phishing scam, as reported by Webuser on November 18, 2008.

According to

» SPAMfighter News 2008/12/2

Phishing Attacks Set New rerecords During September-October 2008

A researcher at internet security company, Cyveillance, claims that in the past 60 days (September-October), phishing attacks have set new records in terms

» SPAMfighter News 2008/12/1

OSU’s Students & Staff Targeted by Phishers

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) revealed that in a recent e-mail scam, illicit phishing e-mails, giving the illusion of legitimate university e-mails, are

» SPAMfighter News 2008/12/1

iDefense - Phishing E-mails Become More Sophisticated & Stealthier

With rising number of targeted phishing attacks, security experts at iDefense, a security intelligence company, state that phishing e-mails have become more

» SPAMfighter News 2008/12/1

An Average Brit Receives 10 Spam Every Day

The outcome of a new poll by conducted Opinium Research for Moneysupermarket in October 2008 has disclosed that an average Brit receives 10 spam mails per

» SPAMfighter News 2008/12/1

Websense Discovered Malicious Social Networking Spam Campaign

A malicious social engineering spam campaign is running on the net, said Websense Security Labs ThreatSeeker. The campaign includes sending of fake official

» SPAMfighter News 2008/11/29

US Lady Swindled of $400,000 in Nigerian E-mail Scam

In the biggest incident of its type, an American lady, Janella Spears, disclosed that the Nigerian Internet criminals have defrauded her of $400,000

» SPAMfighter News 2008/11/29

Targeted E-mail Attacks’ Explosion Troubling Internet Users

Targeted e-mail attacks have more dreadful effects than the normal mail attacks, reported WashingtonPost on November 14, 2008.

Targeted attacks are

» SPAMfighter News 2008/11/29

Phishers Make Very Less Money, Claim Microsoft Researcher Duo

Two researchers at Microsoft, Dinei Florencio and Cormac Herley, conducted a research wherein they found that phishers make very less or almost no

» SPAMfighter News 2008/11/29

US Federal Reserve Bank’s Name Used to Launch Phishing Attack

Security officials at US-CERT (US Computer Emergency Response Team) have warned online users about a new phishing scam which was probably discovered in the

» SPAMfighter News 2008/11/28

Spam Rate Falls Drastically With Closer of McColo

Spam rates worldwide reduced drastically on November 13, 2008 after two leading ISPs cut off internet access, including McColo Corp, a San Jose,

» SPAMfighter News 2008/11/28

Portuguese Spam Exploits the Name of Symantec

A Portuguese spam message has been found tricking the PC users by making them to download and install a fraudulent Symantec product, reported SecurityPark

» SPAMfighter News 2008/11/28

Nigerian 419 Scam Used to Steal Money from Facebook Users

Facebook is again targeted by spammers, but used a different spamming technique. They are using Nigerian 419 scam to dupe users for sending money.

In

» SPAMfighter News 2008/11/28

Standard Bank Cautions Customers About Fake E-mails

Standard Bank of Namibia has been the recent target of phishers who sent fake e-mails that pretend to represent the bank and asked its customers to disclose

» SPAMfighter News 2008/11/27

Spam Claiming Obama-McCain Deaths Mushrooming

According to Sophos, the IT security and control firm, cyber crooks, without wasting any time to capitalize on the global events, are charging the Internet

» SPAMfighter News 2008/11/26

Botnets Profitable, Though Require Millions of Spam for One Sale

Computer scientists at the University of California, Berkeley and UCSD (UC San Diego), have found in a study that spammers make huge profits though they get

» SPAMfighter News 2008/11/26

Spammers Exploiting Obama’s Victory to Spam in English & Spanish

Security experts at Websense, an online security vendor, have warned people about spam e-mails written in English and Spanish language and linked to a

» SPAMfighter News 2008/11/25

Cayman Islands: Scammers Target Businesses and Residents Using IRS

According to the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS), companies asserting to be the Internet Revenue Service (IRS) or lottery agents are trying to

» SPAMfighter News 2008/11/25

Spam of Barack Obama leads in 2008 election

MessageLabs says that Democratic presidential nominee-Barack Obama-is the most favorite presidential candidate for hackers, who have continuously used his

» SPAMfighter News 2008/11/24

Spam Graph Turned Back to High Level in October

According to the monthly spam status report released by the leading security firm Symantec, out of total e-mails received globally in October 2008, 76% were

» SPAMfighter News 2008/11/24

Phishing Attacks on Indian Banks Sharply Increases during 2008, Says NASSCOM

According to NASSCOM (National Association of Software Companies), an industry lobby, several banks in India have been subjected to over 400 phishing scams

» SPAMfighter News 2008/11/24

Lottery Scam Using Skype Message & Phone Gaining Ground in China

A new scam has been discovered by Websense Security Labs ThreatSeeker Network which sends a message to steal money from the victim. The scam is widely

» SPAMfighter News 2008/11/23

Identity Fraud in UK Growing Rapidly

According to the Fraud Prevention Service, CIFAS, UK, the "facility takeover fraud" also referred to as "account takeover fraud" grew at

» SPAMfighter News 2008/11/23

Ypsilanti Credit Union Cautions Members about Phishing Attack

The Ypsilanti Area Federal Credit Union (YAFCU) of Michigan is cautioning its members against responding to bogus e-mails that have not made reference to

» SPAMfighter News 2008/11/21

UK – Economic Turmoil Pushed Cyber-crime 10% Up

As per the cybercrime report released by Garlik, an online identity firm, cyber-crime surged nearly 10% last year in the UK, with rapidly growing criminal

» SPAMfighter News 2008/11/21

George Mason University Hit by Spam Mail

According to news reports published by ComputerWorld published on November 4, 2008, a bogus e-mail was distributed to around 35,000 students, staff members

» SPAMfighter News 2008/11/21

E-mail Scams Using Obama’s Name, Drop Trojans

According to the news from Government Technology published on November 5, 2008, hackers have launched a new campaign to spread malware that uses the name of

» SPAMfighter News 2008/11/20

Police Warn about Phishing E-mail Spoofing IRS

According to the reports coming in, The Oswego and North Aurora police administrations are warning about possible scams circulating in the locality, as

» SPAMfighter News 2008/11/20

Spammers Increase Attacks on Hosted Services

MessageLabs, an Internet security firm, has released malware figures for October 2008 and found that the percentage of malware and other malicious program

» SPAMfighter News 2008/11/19

Kaspersky- Llyod Deal for Security Software Under Attack by Phishers

Phishers have targeted the UK-based Lloyds TSB bank customers by sending a spam mail claiming to provide users a copy of Kaspersky Internet Security 2009

» SPAMfighter News 2008/11/19

E-mail Scams Likely to Rise This Year, Says IRS

The Internet Revenue Service (IRS) has released a warning that the e-mail scams are expected to increase this year because of economic stimulus

» SPAMfighter News 2008/11/19

Cyber-Criminals Striking Legit Web Domain Owners as Revenge

According to security experts, a latest phishing attack that targets authentic website domain owners is finding its way out. It can be a result of the

» SPAMfighter News 2008/11/19

Vindictive Man Guilty of Hacking Computer, Faces Prison

According to news reports published by ComputerWorld on November 4, 2008, an individual from Mill Valley in US faces a sentence to serve prison for full one

» SPAMfighter News 2008/11/18

Regional & Vertical Spam Trends Released by MessageLabs for October 2008

MessageLabs, the leading vendor of Web security and messaging services to businesses around the world, released its MessageLabs Intelligence Report for

» SPAMfighter News 2008/11/18

Indian Banking Sector in the Phishing Net

Currently, phishing, followed by the identity theft, is threatening the banking industry of India, as reported by CIOL, on October 30, 2008. So Internet

» SPAMfighter News 2008/11/18

Computer Hackers Moving to Newer Trends

According to the Internet Threat Report by security firm Symantec, computer hackers are moving to newer trends, making a shift from hacking done for fame to

» SPAMfighter News 2008/11/18

Business Advisors Release Warning Against Phishing E-mails

A business advisory firm in Preston (UK) has issued a warning to businesses to be extra cautious after scam government e-mails being dispatched to companies

» SPAMfighter News 2008/11/18

Phishing Scam Targets Financial Institutions Making News Headlines

Security researchers said that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) based in the US is cautioning customers, companies and financial

» SPAMfighter News 2008/11/15

Hackers Attack Bebo & Creating Several Fake Accounts

Websense Security Labs said that Bebo, the famous social networking site, has been under attack from hackers who register several fake accounts advertising

» SPAMfighter News 2008/11/15

UPS Spam Emerges Again

According to internet security researchers and analysts, the most current tactic used by malware writers to transmit their malicious software is using

» SPAMfighter News 2008/11/14

Phishers Run Quality Control Tests to Validate Credit Card Details

As per security analysts, since the specific number of users responding to phishing messages by giving fake information is still unclear, phishers are

» SPAMfighter News 2008/11/14