Security News

New Wave of Hailstorm Spam Pelts Inboxes (Threatpost)
2016-12-21 18:12

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.

Malicious spam volume hits two year high (Help Net Security)
2016-11-11 12:45

According to the Kaspersky Lab Spam and Phishing in Q3 report, the company’s products blocked 73,066,751 attempts to attack users with malicious attachments. This is the largest amount of...

Spam is once again on the rise (Help Net Security)
2016-09-22 15:19

Spam volume is back to mid-2010 heights, and Cisco Talos researchers say that the Necurs botnet is partly to blame. “Many of the host IPs sending Necurs’ spam have been infected for more than two...

Consumers harassed by 30 million spam calls every day (Help Net Security)
2016-09-12 13:00

Consumers are giving up twice as much sensitive data over the previous year, according to First Orion. Consumers are accosted by over 30 million spam calls to their mobile phones every day. To get...

Pokémon GO Spam, Ransomware, On the Rise (Threatpost)
2016-08-17 16:58

Attackers are pushing Pokémon GO-themed ransomware and SMS spam messages to entice players to visit malicious websites.