Security News

GPS faker software broadcasts spam across thousands of fake profiles (Help Net Security)
2015-11-26 07:16

Different from traditional email spam, social spam can reach a large audience by nature of the platform and can appear trustworthy since it is coming from people in your social network. This kind of s...

Digitally signed spam campaign spotted delivering malware (Help Net Security)
2015-11-11 14:41

We've all heard about digitally signed malware, but have you ever been targeted with a digitally signed spam email? Someone did, and has shared the signature notice with the public: Just received ...

Researchers map out hard-to-kill, multi-layered spam botnet (Help Net Security)
2015-11-04 08:00

A dropper component sent to the Akamai researchers led them to the discovery of a spamming botnet that consists of at least 83,000 compromised systems. The botnet is multi-layered, decentralized, a...