Lates News & Info Aug 1st

Twishing in China (aka the Twitter phishing campaign)
Following the Money: Rogue Anti-virus Software
SupportOnClick: Phoned by Malwarebytes? BigPond? Anyone else
McAfee Q2 Report: All Bout Botnets & Spam
Ads Follow Web Users, and Get Much More Personal
Trojans Total Half of BitDefender’s Top 10 E-Threats for Jul
Spam Volumes Shoot Up 141%
Massive, Sophisticated Trojan Targeting Top Businesses
Microsoft to open stores in Arizona, California, two retail
REALLY? Fake A-V On Rise- DUH
New attack resurrects previously patched security bugs
YaHoo!, LiveJournal & Google Groups Abused by Spammers
A Diverse Portfolio of Fake Security Software - Part 23

Lates News & Info

Rogues: Home Antivirus 2010[July 19]
Microsoft sues alleged IM spammers, phishers
Lessons from Twitter's security breach
Experts:Flood of 'Canadian Pharmacy' spam to Russian botnets
From Ukraine w\ Bogus Twitter, LinkedIn and Scribd Accounts
Michael Jackson Phishing Scam, featuring Comodo
Rustock Botnet Behind Rise in Spam
Spammers Abusing URL Shortening Services
Dissecting Koobface Worm's Twitter Campaign
Cumulative Security Update of ActiveX Kill Bits
Microsoft Security Advisory (973472)
New Version Release: Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware

Latest News & Info From Forums - Jan 7

Latest Security & News Info

• War Against CAPTCHA Needs New Approaches
• mlb.com Pushing Malware
  

Recent Forum Discussions

• Playing Tetris Is Good For You
• Windows Live Hotmail To Get POP Access?
• MS To Offer Free Windows 7 Upgrades?

Latest News & Info From The Forums-Dec 8

Latest Security & News Info

• More Fake Microsoft Spam
• Google Testing ActiveX Alternative

Gustav Scam Domains Popping Up

Gustav Inspires Scammers w\Fake Domains

Internet Threat Portal, Spam Study:29% Of You Are None Too Bright

Latest Security & News Info

• New Threat Internet Portal In Beta
• TeMerc:29% Of You Ain't Too Smart

Sorm Worm Update 6-17

Latest Security & News Info

• Storm Worm Pushing Stocks

Monday News June 16

• Anonymous Domain Sales: A Spammer's Delight
• Stan Winston, Spec FX Monster Creator Dead....

Now THAT'S a lot of spam!!

Firefighter Gets 37K Spam Emails....In One Day!!

Storm Worm IPs

List of latest Storm Worm, with some 'Subject' lines as well

• 92.80.105.5/
  92.81.116.188/
  92.80.105.5/
  24.210.161.135
  80.74.59.103
  75.36.203.254/
  99.165.13.64/
  Our Love Nest - 65.185.86.166/
  Dream of You - <same as above>
  Hugging My Pillow - 24.88.247.128/
  76.252.189.167
  72.40.18.255/
  69.236.21.121/
  92.81.116.188/
  92.80.105.5/
  24.210.161.135
  80.74.59.103
  75.36.203.254/
  99.165.13.64/
  72.224.23.148/
  123.140.200.190/
  A Toasty My Love - 24.23.163.181
  Our Love Will Last - 64.126.47.223/

More subject lines here as well

Storm Variant In Mass Phish

SCMagazine reports that one of the latest Storm variants is being used in an expansive phishing scheme targeting two large banking institutions. No matter the season, there's always another Storm brewing.

Merry X-Mas Storm Worm!!

The latest variant of the Storm worm is out and about. Some details can be read here in the forums and that thread is linked to more detailed analysis.

Hot Phish & Spam Links, Cookie Issues & HP Laptop Security Woes

Once again, the Phish & Spam forum are taking the bustling 'n' hustling title for the day. Symantec has a new trend to speak of, fake newsletters. Anything you can think of, spammers will try. And then some.

From a respected security analysis, we get an overlook of the last year in spam. Trends new and old, site life for phishes and more.

As spam increases each year, it climbs higher as a total amount of email sent. These numbers almost can't be believed, upwards of 90% were spam in '07

Own an HP laptop? It appears some of the software involved exposes users to a risk of getting hijacked

For the last entry into the daily grind we have a couple of tools which may allow some cookie security holes to be exposed or created. There may finally be a reason to fear cookies.

Symantec Monthly Spam Report

This month Symantec catalogs the holiday spam subjects, looks at the last 12 months of wonderful inbox filling spam and mentions new email harvesting campaign by spammers. See more here...

Fake YouTube Links, New Spam Gang?

Well in the phishing and spam forum we have two new items. The first deals with some spam containing fake YouTube links that -GASP!-...re-direct to malware! OMG! Whoda thunk they could do that? Hehe.

Next we have what looks to be some gang trying to reach Storm worm gang notoriety. Using celebs names as bait, they of course get suckers to install their trojans by duping them into opening emails. Uh-Huh...When will people get a clue? Have you been suckered in?

New Spam Campaign w\.scr Files

Two top anti spam companies find new campaign spreading trojan using a .scr file. Y-A-W-N....spam, What, me worry? Nope

Email Poll In forum

Well I have a new poll in the forum. It's an inquiry into how often you check your email through out the day. Why don't you check it out and vote