According to Click Forensics and Anchor Intelligence, almost a third of the clicks to online ads were fraudulent in the first three months of this year. That’s a 25% increase from the last quarter of 2009. Usually the fraud is done by cybercriminals that create various websites containing only ads. After that, they rent the services of groups that control [...]

Oficla/Sasfis malware is pretty common these days in  amazon shopping spam emails. The idea is quite old and simple: you will receive an e-mail with an attachment. The attachment is a zip file and once you extract and run the executable file you become infected. Below we’ll show you some of the details of this attack: You will receive a [...]

Even though 2010 started with four botnets tackled via arrests or net access cutoffs, spammers survive. “So as far as impact on spam goes it has been minimal,” said Rik Ferguson, a senior security analyst at Trend Micro. Despite Waledac being taken down or that a large chunk of the Zeus botnet was amputated and that spanish investigators along with FBI worked to [...]

Name : Mit Spam Conference Date : 25 – 26 March 2010 Location: USA, MA, Cambridge, MIT Event Page: projects.csail.mit.edu/spamconf/ Event Brochure : N/A Conference Chair: Kathy Liszka Professor, Computer Science University of Akron Akron, OH 44325-4003 +1-330-972-8017 liszka [at] uakron.edu