Chinese police arrested 1500 SMS Spammers
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Starting from February, Chinese police has been cracking down on mobile sms spammers ferociously. Based in North-east Liaoning province, bordering North Korea, the Spammers has been actively sending 200 millions junk sms to millions of mobile user every month. According to police, the group has sent […]
Spammers take over Twitter Trends with sexy hashtags
Twas the week before Christmas, when all through Tweetland, London saw some odd hashtags, sent out from spam brands. According to the Guardian, Londoners awoke on Friday morning to find their automatically generated trending topics lists stuffed with sexy tags. Namely, spammers used Twitter algorithms to their advantage in order to flood the site with the hashtags #escort, #massage […]
Twitter says leaked passwords mostly inaccurate or for suspended spammers
Twitter logins and passwords leaked on the web this week are mostly inaccurate or belong to accounts already suspended for spamming, the company said last night. View full post on Techworld.com security View full post on National Cyber Security » Computer Hacking
Twitter spammers infect users with fake antivirus programs
A large spam campaign observed on Twitter during the last couple of days directed users to malicious websites that exploited vulnerabilities in browser plug-ins to infect their computers with rogue antivirus programs, according to security researchers from antivirus firm Kaspersky Lab. While monitoring the spam campaign for several hours, Kaspersky’s researchers counted 4,148 tweets containing […]
Twitter hauls spammers into court
Twitter has taken its fight against on-line spam to the courthouse, filing suit last Thursday in the US District Court in San Francisco. Here’s a summary, plus some tips for you to do your bit to help cut down Twitter spam. View full post on Naked Security – Sophos View full post on National Cyber […]
Dropbox URL shortener targetted by spammers
Spammers are abusing a Dropbox feature that lets users share a shortened link, directing people to websites selling questionable pharmaceuticals, according to security vendor Symantec. Dropbox, the file-sharing and synchronization service, has a public folder that is dedicated to sharing content. Dropbox’s URL (uniform resource locator) shortening service can be used to create links to […]
Spammers pretend to be popular developers to distribute rogue Android apps
Spammers are impersonating well-known Android software developers in order to distribute rogue apps through the official Android Market. Security researchers from antivirus firm Trend Micro have identified a developer named Rovio MobiIe Ltd. in the Android Market, which had a significant number of rogue applications in its portfolio. Some users might immediately recognise Rovio Mobile […]
DreamHost websites abused by spammers following security breach
The security breach suffered by DreamHost in January has resulted in hundreds of rogue PHP pages redirecting users to work-at-home scams, according to researchers from cloud security vendor Zscaler. DreamHost decided to reset the FTP and shell access passwords for all of its customers after discovering that hackers compromised one of its database servers on […]
Facebook takes on ‘clickjacking’ spammers in court
SEATTLE, Jan 27 — Facebook and the state of Washington sued a company yesterday they accused of a practice called “clickjacking” that fools users of the world’s top social network into visiting advertising sites, divulging personal information and spreading the scam to friends. The scheme, also known as “likejacking” because victims are tricked … View […]
Spammers Ordered to Pay Yahoo $610 Million
The spammers were accused of sending out fake e-mails telling recipients they had won a lottery sponsored by Yahoo. View full post on eSecurityPlanet RSS Feed View full post on National Cyber Security