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• Malware

• Storm Worm Attacks

  The subject matter varies in the attempt to get people to download the bad exe file. Sample: "Virus Activity Detected! Dear Customer, Our robot has detected an abnormal activity from your IP adress on sending e-mails. Probably it is connected with... Posted Jul 09 2007, 10:06 AM by tashi with Filed under: News , Spam-Phish, Security , Malware

• Spam Trojan Uses Generated Yahoo and Hotmail Accounts

  Security company BitDefender reports a new threat, dubbed Trojan.Spammer.HotLan.A, using automatically generated Yahoo and Hotmail accounts to send out spam email. “There are only about 500 or so new accounts being created every hour,” commented head... Posted Jul 09 2007, 01:25 AM by tashi with Filed under: News , Spam-Phish, Security

• OPERATION BOT ROAST

  FBI Press Release: Over 1 Million Potential Victims of Botnet Cyber Crime "Today the Department of Justice and FBI announced the results of an ongoing cyber crime initiative to disrupt and dismantle “botherders” and elevate the public’s cyber security... Posted Jun 13 2007, 04:53 PM by tashi with Filed under: News , Spam-Phish, Security

• FBI Takes Down Botnet

  ABC News reports the FBI has identified 1 million computer addresses that have been hacked by criminals who hijack other people’s computers, turn them into servers and use them to send out massive amounts of spam and spyware. http://www.abcnews.go.com... Posted Jun 13 2007, 01:50 PM by tashi with Filed under: News , Spam-Phish, Security