Collaborate Disseminate
By Waqas
Here’s an updated list of five effective CAPTCHA plugins for WordPress that can help enhance the security of your website by preventing spam and bot activities:
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By Uzair Amir
In this post, we will talk about emails that are considered spam and the most effective ways to eliminate them.
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YouTube removed nearly 2 million channels in the first quarter of 2020, 85% of which were terminated due to the promotion of scams, misinformation, and, in some cases, for spreading malware. A popular pastime for 2 billion unique monthly users, it come… Continue reading 85% of all YouTube Channels Removed in Q1 Flagged Over Malicious or Fraudulent Content
Hours after being alerted by KrebsOnSecurity, Facebook last week deleted almost 120 private discussion groups totaling more than 300,000 members who flagrantly promoted a host of illicit activities on the social media network’s platform. The scam groups facilitated a broad spectrum of shady activities, including spamming, wire fraud, account takeovers, phony tax refunds, 419 scams, denial-of-service attack-for-hire services and botnet creation tools. The average age of these groups on Facebook’s platform was two years. Continue reading Deleted Facebook Cybercrime Groups Had 300,000 Members
A massive database of 630 million email addresses used by a spambot to send large amounts of spam to has been published online in what appears to be one of the biggest data dumps of its kind.
A French security researcher, who uses online handle Benkow… Continue reading Over 711 Million Email Addresses Exposed From SpamBot Server
Update (Tuesday, April 11): The arrest of a Russian man in Spain was apparently for his role in Kelihos botnet responsible for sending hundreds of millions of spam emails worldwide.
A Russian computer hacker and alleged spam kingpin was arrested in Barcelona, Spain, on Friday reportedly over suspicion of being involved in hacking attacks linked to alleged interference in last year’s United
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At its height, River City Media, run by Alvin Slocombe and Matt Ferris, sent out a billion emails a day, slamming Gmail servers with fragmented traffic in order to ensure all of its email went out on time. After failing to password-protect a remo… Continue reading Spammers expose over a billion email addresses after failed backup
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