CyberCrime & Doing Time

In a bold new spam campaign, the criminals behind the Zeus Botnet have been distributing a spam email with a link to an executable file. We ...

Yesterday I had the pleasure of speaking on the subject of phishing to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners Alabama chapter confere...

Back on November 24th, we ran a story about a version of Zeus which pretended to be a friend letting you know that Some Jerk Posted Your Pho...

This is not the first time we've seen a Zeus dropper acting like a VISA phish . . . recently we've had the December 21st VISA and D...

Today our top spam-delivered malware is coming to us in the guise of a message from the American Bankers Association. Subject lines seen in...

The UAB Spam Data Mine has been receiving emails like these all weekend . . . Dear AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) user, Your AIM account is fla...

From December 15th to December 20th, the top Zbot or "Zeus" trojan spreader was a spam email campaign which claimed to have news a...

On December 12th we covered a new "Visa.com" version of the Zeus distribution spam. (See story: Ongoing Visa Scam Drops Zeus Zbo...

I guess the UAB Spam Data Mine is having a bad day! Our VISA card is being used in Kuwait! Dear VISA card holder, A recent review of your t...

As Solomon said, "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." (Eccles...

Emails like this: You have received this e-mail because of the launching of State Vaccination H1N1 Program. You need to create your personal...

We're getting tons of strange IRS spam this morning. Subjects like: IRS - Please Read! IRS - Tax Refund Notification! IRS e-file refund...

I'm frequently asked how it is that the UAB Spam Data Mine is consistently among the first in reporting new spam campaigns that contain ...