Spam

Play.com customer emails leaked?

March 21, 2011

That’s what people are asking. http://twitter.com/search?q=play.com%20spam http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=3122462&page=3 http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2011/03/21/play-com-customer-emails-leaked.html

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Joint effort brings down Rustock Botnet

March 17, 2011

Microsoft On The Issues 17 Mar 2011 This operation, known as Operation b107, is the second high-profile takedown in Microsoft’s joint effort between DCU, Microsoft Malware Protection Center and Trustworthy Computing – known as Project MARS (Microsoft Active Response for Security) – to disrupt botnets and begin to undo the damage the botnets have caused [...]

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Federal Reserve Spam and Scam

March 15, 2011

Caught in my spam filter. Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 From: info@federalreserve.gov Under “click here” was federalwiresuppliersglobal.info Domain ID:D37217046-LRMS Domain Name:FEDERALWIRESUPPLIERSGLOBAL.INFO Created On:15-Mar-2011 11:05:23 UTC Last Updated On:15-Mar-2011 11:05:35 UTC Expiration Date:15-Mar-2012 11:05:23 UTC More at Gar Warner’s Blog. Last week the big malware-spreading spam claimed to be from NACHA and warned about problems with [...]

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Pharmaceutical Spam

January 27, 2011

This one which just came into my mailbox deserves its own note, don’t be fooled. The links in the email direct to a new domain in China. Domain Name………. bestdrpillseng.com Creation Date…….. 2011-01-25 01:49:23 Registration Date…. 2011-01-25 01:49:23 Expiry Date………. 2012-01-25 01:49:23 Organisation Name…. sun jun Organisation Address. jiefanglu344hao Organisation Address. Organisation Address. jingmen Organisation [...]

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Alleged Russian spam king held in US jail

December 6, 2010

Oleg Nikolaenko, a 23-year-old Muscovite arraigned Friday morning in Milwaukee, is being held without bail on federal charges. Brian Krebs, ‘Krebs on Security blog’ posted the criminal complaint (PDF) and updated his original article. The Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel: http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/111169714.html Nikolaenko pleaded not guilty.

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Botnet Spam

October 8, 2010

FireEye Malware Intelligence Lab Silent Rustock There has been a significant observed drop in worldwide SPAM levels during the last month or so. M86 thinks it’s due to Rustock, the world’s largest spam botnet, suddenly stopped sending spam for unknown reasons. McAfee has expressed a different point of view. According to them, the steep drop [...]

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usa-kbs.com spam

October 8, 2010

Spam doing the rounds. Re: CV 23 Dear Applicant ****** My name Maria Friedman, I am happy to let you know that there are few administrative assistants vacancies offered by our company. Please review this email closely and check whether you are the right candidate for this job. We are a reputable food manufacturer that [...]

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Researchers cripple Pushdo Botnet

August 28, 2010

LastLine Inc We identified a total of 30 servers used as part of the Pushdo/Cutwail infrastructure, located at eight different hosting providers all over the world. The information about the activity was extracted from Anubis reports, which contain details about the system and network activities, including a pcap file that contains the network traffic we [...]

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Convicted Spammer starts sentence

March 4, 2010

Spamhaus Leaving a wake of over 12-years of criminal spamming and trillions of sent junk emails behind him, long time ROKSO listed spammer Alan Ralsky is finally behind the walls of a US Federal Prison. After pleading guilty to multiple federal criminal charges, and after time extensions to “get his affairs in order”, Ralsky reported [...]

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Microsoft knocks out Waledac Botnet

February 25, 2010

Microsoft, a founding member of the Botnet Task Force, announced that a federal judge has granted a temporary restraining order cutting off 277 Internet domains believed to be run by criminals controlling a vast network of infected PCs. This action has quickly and effectively cut off traffic to Waledac at the “.com” or domain registry [...]

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