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AkiraBot Targets 420,000 Sites with OpenAI-Generated Spam, Bypassing CAPTCHA Protections
2025-04-10 07:15

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an artificial intelligence (AI) powered platform called AkiraBot that's used to spam website chats, comment sections, and contact forms to...

Hackers Exploit WordPress mu-Plugins to Inject Spam and Hijack Site Images
2025-03-31 12:04

Threat actors are using the "mu-plugins" directory in WordPress sites to conceal malicious code with the goal of maintaining persistent remote access and redirecting site visitors to bogus sites....

Hijacked Microsoft web domain injects spam into SharePoint servers
2025-03-27 23:11

The legacy domain for Microsoft Stream was hijacked to show a fake Amazon site promoting a Thailand casino, causing all SharePoint sites with old embedded videos to display it as spam. [...]

Cybercriminals Exploit CSS to Evade Spam Filters and Track Email Users' Actions
2025-03-17 11:52

Malicious actors are exploiting Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), which are used to style and format the layout of web pages, to bypass spam filters and track users' actions. That's according to new...

Hackers Exploited Krpano Framework Flaw to Inject Spam Ads on 350+ Websites
2025-02-26 17:19

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in a virtual tour framework has been weaponized by malicious actors to inject malicious scripts across hundreds of websites with the goal of manipulating...

Nine out of ten emails are spam
2025-01-31 04:30

Now, more than ever, users can fall prey to word-perfect AI-created phishing campaigns, subtle BEC messages that sound remarkably like the sender, and highly convincing ploys from trusted vendors...

How to use Hide My Email to protect your inbox from spam
2025-01-30 04:00

Hide My Email is a service that comes with iCloud+, Apple’s subscription-based service. It allows users to generate one-time-use or reusable email addresses that forward messages to their personal...

Ongoing phishing attack abuses Google Calendar to bypass spam filters
2024-12-18 23:16

An ongoing phishing scam is abusing Google Calendar invites and Google Drawings pages to steal credentials while bypassing spam filters. [...]

Critical WordPress Anti-Spam Plugin Flaws Expose 200,000+ Sites to Remote Attacks
2024-11-26 13:23

Two critical security flaws impacting the Spam protection, Anti-Spam, and FireWall plugin WordPress could allow an unauthenticated attacker to install and enable malicious plugins on susceptible...

Rspamd: Open-source spam filtering system
2024-10-07 04:00

Rspamd is an open-source spam filtering and email processing framework designed to evaluate messages based on a wide range of rules, including regular expressions, statistical analysis, and...