Collaborate Disseminate
Bitdefender Antispam Lab spotted an amusing extortion campaign yesterday. While many extortion scams use petty scare tactics to fool recipients into paying up, you can’t be worried if you don’t understand the scammer’s e-mail. Even though the subject o… Continue reading Poor Grammar Makes For a Poor Extortion Campaign; ’You Under Attack‘ Pay Us ’Before Make Drama’
In the last two weeks, Bitdefender telemetry has picked up a spam campaign leveraging the Coca-Cola Company name. The subject lines ranged from “COCA-COLA LOTTERY ORGANIZATION” to “Coca Cola Email Draw UK 2020 -Coca Cola Lucky Winner … Continue reading Scam Alert: Coca-Cola Scam Giveaways are After Your Personal Information
My email box is full of Coronavirus / COVID-19 frauds and scams. I have Corona malware disguised as product catalogs. I have fake World Health Organization emails asking me to donate my Bitcoin to them. I have more than 30 fake breath… Continue reading CAUCE Spamfighters Rally Against Corona Health Fraud Affiliate programs
Over the past few days, fans of singer Cardi B noticed her website was slowly filling up with spam. We take a look at what happened.
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A roundup of the security news from April 09 – April 16, including fake updates, safe messaging, and Facebook spammers. And our quarterly CTNT report is out.
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A database of 1.4 billion email addresses combined with real names, IP addresses, and often physical address has been exposed in what appears to be one the largest data breach of this year.
What’s worrisome? There are high chances that you, or at leas… Continue reading Database of 1.4 Billion Records leaked from World’s Biggest Spam Networks
Spammers are turning to an old technique known as hailstorm to slip past anti-spam and anti-malware filters to deliver Dridex banking malware and Locky ransomware. Continue reading New Wave of Hailstorm Spam Pelts Inboxes
Experts at InfoArmor said the stolen database of 1 billion Yahoo accounts has been sold multiple times for at least $300,000 each time. Continue reading Stolen Yahoo Data Sold to Spammers, One Government Client
Those referrals in your analytics aren’t actually from us. They’re probably from a Russian spammer we interviewed. Continue reading Motherboard Is Not Spam