Symantec has reported that Twitter is being used as bait to phish personal information: “Spammers habitually exploit the reputations of brands for their benefit. As more and more people become connected through social networking sites, it is no surprise that the trust and reputation earned by these websites is misused by spammers. We are monitoring [...]
Spammers use images to flood emails with online ads
April 6, 2009 By 1 Comment
The number of websites blocked for hosting malicious content rose to 2,797 websites per day in March, according to a MessageLabs report, a 197.2% increase over the previous month and the highest level since October 2008. Photo: An email with images found by MessageLabs containing scripts The report attributed the increase to a sharp increase [...]
Court issues preliminary injunction against “RemoteSpy” defendants
December 2, 2008 By 1 Comment
Note: This is a follow-up article of our story “Victory against sale of spyware”. “At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a U.S. District Court issued a preliminary injunction on November 25, 2008 barring Florida-based CyberSpy Software, LLC and its principal Tracer R. Spence from engaging in certain marketing activities that the FTC has alleged [...]
Victory against sale of spyware
November 20, 2008 By Leave a Comment
We are happy to note that a victory has been scored against a spyware company, even if the victory is only temporary. The US Federal Trade Commission reported November 17 that at the Commission’s request, a U.S. District Court had issued a temporary restraining order halting the sale of keylogger spyware. According to the FTC’s complaint, the Florida-based CyberSpy Software, LLC marketed and sold RemoteSpy keylogger spyware [...]
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