Security News

PewDiePie-spammers and whale-flingers exploit hole in Atlas game
2019-01-23 12:18

Last week hackers allegedly compromised an admin’s Steam account and used it to spawn planes, tanks, and whales in Atlas.

Bomb Threat, Sextortion Spammers Abused Weakness at GoDaddy.com
2019-01-23 02:44

Two of the most disruptive and widely-received spam email campaigns over the past few months -- including an ongoing sextortion email scam and a bomb threat hoax that shut down dozens of schools,...

Spammer scum hack 100,000 home routers via UPnP vulns to craft email-flinging botnet
2018-11-08 07:58

Look out for traffic to and from these IP addresses and ports Once again, a hundred thousand or more home routers have been press-ganged into a spam-spewing botnet, this time via Universal Plug...

Facebook Eyes Spammers for Mega-Breach
2018-10-18 12:48

Social Network Reportedly Sees No Signs of Nation-State HackersFacebook is eyeing spammers as being the culprits behind its recently disclosed mega-breach, The Wall Street Journal reports....

New PowerPoint malware delivery technique tested by spammers (Help Net Security)
2017-06-09 18:54

A spam run detected by several security companies has attempted to deliver malware through an innovative technique: a link in a PowerPoint slideshow. The attack unfolds like this: A malicious...

Spammer’s Arrest Puts End to Kelihos Botnet (Threatpost)
2017-04-11 17:43

Notorious spammer Peter Levashov was arrested over the weekend; Levashov is the alleged botmaster behind the Kelihos botnet.

Offer of nude celeb photos turns Twitter users into spammers (Help Net Security)
2017-03-21 13:30

If not careful, Twitter users who are dead set on seeing nude photos of WWE star Paige will end up on marketers’ spam lists and with their own Twitter account pushing out messages leading other...

Spammer’s Leaky Backup Exposes Massive Empire (Threatpost)
2017-03-06 19:57

A massive spam operation that sent out more than one billion messages a day was exposed by researchers who called the operation "illegal" and a “tangible threat to online privacy and security.”