Thursday, January 31, 2008 4:37 PM/CST
The Google-backed StopBadware.org project has slapped a "badware" label on the widely deployed RealPlayer media player for problems associated with disclosure and uninstallation. For the most part, the non-profit group has reserved the badware label for sketchy spyware-related products...
Thursday, January 03, 2008 8:47 PM/CST
Spyware has landed on Facebook. According to researchers at Fortinet, a malicious Facebook Widget actively spreading on the popular social networking site is serving as a lure to trick users into installing the notorious Zango adware/spyware program. According to a...
Thursday, December 27, 2007 12:54 PM/CST
After a brief lull, the "Storm Worm" malware attacks returned with a bang this holiday season, using electronic greeting card lures to build and replenish one of the most notorious spam botnets. The latest social engineering attacks began just before...
Monday, October 08, 2007 2:39 PM/CST
SoftScan, an anti-virus, anti-spam company, told the New York Times recently that zombified machines belonging to college students are behind a rise in spam that was observed last month. The Times quotes Diego d'Ambra, CTO at SoftScan, as saying that...
Thursday, May 03, 2007 1:02 PM/CST
April saw the emergence of company character assassination spam, image spam variations and the dominance of Mal/Iframe—malware that crawls legitimate sites for holes into which it can inject malicious code—according to monthly wrap-up reports from Symantec and Sophos. Doug Bowers,...
Wednesday, May 02, 2007 4:31 PM/CST
In a worldwide kickoff event that involved 50,000 people, Microsoft on May 2 launched the client piece of its aggressive client-server-edge enterprise security software push, which the company branded as its Forefront line at the Boston TechEd show in June...
Monday, April 30, 2007 12:29 PM/CST
E-Gold, what F-Secure calls a "very prominent" digital currency for criminals, has been indicted for money laundering, conspiracy and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business. According to an indictment, handed down by a Washington federal grand jury and unsealed on...
Thursday, April 26, 2007 6:45 PM/CST
Secure Computing is reporting that it has detected a new form of image spam that has taken an evolutionary leap over past image spam, using the popular photo-sharing site ImageShack to upload spam images. Spammers are sending e-mails containing a...
Tuesday, April 24, 2007 11:31 PM/CST
Microsoft has unveiled what's it's calling its Malware Protection Center: a new think tank comprising security and threat experts that will provide global malware research, response and protection capabilities in order to help protect customers from new or existing threats....
Thursday, March 08, 2007 2:36 PM/CST
The Securities and Exchange Commission has suspended trading in securities of 35 companies suspected to be spammers as part of a new effort, "Operation Spamalot," to shut down potentially fraudulent spam hyping small company stocks with phrases such as "Ready...
