Spamhaus: Uptick in Tor-using botnets may force ISPs to block all Tor traffic
2016 was the year of ransomware, says non-profit spam-fighting project, Spamhaus.
2016 was the year of ransomware, says non-profit spam-fighting project, Spamhaus.
As part of this year’s Spark Festival in Sydney, local success story Atlassian hosted the first CyberSecurity pitch fest
Anthony Caruana | 28 Oct | Read more
New research shows that old-fashioned spam and trickery is the most common way of infecting machines, driven largely by Dridex banking malware.
Google and Yahoo are expanding their use of a successful system used to detect spam.
Jeremy Kirk | 21 Oct | Read more
Level 3’s research report analyses botnet activity around the world
Ann Bednarz | 19 Jun | Read more
While the volume of cyberthreats declined slightly last year, their sophistication increased, according to a new report from Websense Security Labs.
Maria Korolov | 09 Apr | Read more
A 250 percent rise in spam volumes during 2014 has come as a surprise to a Cisco security executive in the wake of the company's latest security figures, which noted the trend in conjunction with a decline in the prevalence of malware attacks created using widely available exploit kits
David Braue | 21 Jan | Read more
Scammers routinely try to take advantage of humanitarian disasters to get people to open phishing emails, or to donate money to fake organizations.
Maria Korolov | 19 Nov | Read more
Australia has displaced Brazil, the UK and Canada to become the world's most-targeted country for phishing attacks, according to a Kaspersky Labs analysis of phishing attacks in August.
David Braue | 29 Sep | Read more
Email spam filtering is far better than it used to be. There was a time when nearly every scam email would land in your inbox. Thankfully that's not the case anymore--especially if you're a Gmail user.
Is Apple's iMessage the new favorite tool of spammers worldwide? A widely-quoted recent article written by Wired's Robert McMillan suggests it is, even going so far as to claim that iMessage "is being taken over by spammers."
Marco Tabini | 23 Aug | Read more
Google has made an important change to its Gmail spam filter that is expected to make targeted phishing attacks more difficult while allowing for a more global webmail service.
Antone Gonsalves | 14 Aug | Read more
A small number of the Internet's most prolific comment spammers are generating the lion's share of comment spam that can often sit waiting to compromise visitors' computers for long periods of time, an Imperva analysis has warned.
David Braue | 10 Jun | Read more
When it comes down to it, spam and phishing scams rely primarily on exploiting trust. If the attacker can find a way to make the message appear to be from a known source, the odds that a user will take the bait are much higher. This has led to malware infections that access your contacts and send out infected emails on your behalf to everyone you know, and those same basic techniques have been adapted for instant messaging, social networks, and even SMS text messaging. According to a new report from Kaspersky Lab, Mobile apps are the new frontier.
Tony Bradley | 08 May | Read more
AOL is asking users to reset their passwords as it investigates a recent flurry of spam e-mails.
Jared Newman | 29 Apr | Read more